Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 697e76a041beb5fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-23 14:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 510f9755c5809a6abf2689f5cf7c8fa5 SHA-1: a5848646bde61359d7c963ebd7ff131d469d2b33 SHA-256: 697e76a041beb5fd10b2dae6b42b9bda9b5ec6ee6cb4b8afb2df2e244950eb9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure as a link farm on potentially compromised hosting supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/06/20/kawivili.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3af372a5b24e1c8fa1da4361b0bfab8/59604712964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6badad520---tosukazutibubalaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035adaf7de0858744ed1a63751297dbd/67681108751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c9b38850cf---41073642923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6hna8fd6act8jnfq9h9qm2hrn/zewuriwubaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/33056798909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608850c8797e2---89533187382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72849ef1d5cfe54e09ebacec53576521/64757419951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce88158d335---kidimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078290fbf799---24459349698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a829c3dbc1b---mibakezurofigatotumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-restaurant-plainfaing.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52443009712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/fowoxorizerozomivuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943b61b33c8---jolozavenufimera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81377279507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/12731415730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c4513e6a4---wosowevumajenemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbjqaie4e6jk28jbu0tahj4gnr/kumofewusoragesizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/47301111003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607730bc87e31---josine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/52575061042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/fafitenase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=my+personal+color+testPDF link annotation
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojipuwisiroxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D2 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 9945ee0e5958bac00a17332c91306f4b2872e72f35dc7a4a9e1013f5338e8e7d
font_01_sfnt_off00010083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10083 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 16b120acee9338703de16ed268147baf6194976188a0821feebd92b5345da4e4
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1