Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 699178a4cec0e3a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:10:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4dda726367b0b61ea6fa3a3d17db2b95 SHA-1: 68a9a870484b7f33c231d9459d0a1c007d848dce SHA-256: 699178a4cec0e3a49d1bdd5d74f544ad984c5d08adfc883eb89e6cebb0df0d77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=babyliss+pro+perfect+curl+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161130d9f310fc---76316622428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86f0c8a9044f14ef7443e68cfa9f5f8/63062825052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78c209c860---60502172971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl35t8amemcefngkdkhtrgak5r/21460940362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/86449430412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e090b649316cc5e90e8c76e0d532a1ef/wurenemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.info/upload/files/35136669786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voketonilafajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/45294470128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b93c3332215f2175dc99f0b497b375/ladojakabojuzowivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bbcaecb0c---92020198500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/baniruvivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/paxonuvawadigituduwevixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/40997086969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/sopuguxofaretiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080959eb823d---faxavirevezagubebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/kofafakuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/114686838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69oerrd1ref5fgmj82m6v1b9r1/simisitoxavufepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bb72fa4335dbc1fd6d6750005d9021/29879654324.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_off0000d9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D8 17972 bytes
SHA-256: c50136f72185d9e6162f217dbe9ce7b98689ad4afc2892f39e5726568152134c
font_02_sfnt_off0001205e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1205E 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8a510fc5e9a88f74eee6352f1d24c84edad5d5f2de37c010e41b9acf2f2fdf