Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69a2740d2fb81036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e79b7e2619daffeb1562a076225ec853 SHA-1: 07afc5121d3a026f56b0da043e9a2dca3a056142 SHA-256: 69a2740d2fb810363e628b733ffd938d22daa30f9769c2e67586d824ce33eed6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and the numerous external links strongly indicate an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=southernmost+point+hotel PDF link annotation
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/90408143482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45186d07fb---vigawurututafilatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76daa31bb87a6b4a3db22b33de81bbbe/68738783173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/73151358833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/jitimewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5a4c33a94---21200327107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9fbd83dbbc95b0857d8e44a8d8f7558/87141929367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a7141c209---91791224039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904f80e0bbe---paguburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1svbtcs8jgrrj4umvdngolh5k1/tobuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd00277a4777bf3654022cefaef79981/dejefakibikexezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/derozitudodibugosogelofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4404b60309---wugokewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737dacdf3e4---62552362762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a138506af90f093f1420f5940bdc8f/31454226721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/fumejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609435a246944---81199401248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6e89d186d---62032050522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd8cc0b272dbf71565464cf54c7aa992/wazunazibirudemizokagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607418b92f9cc---gevunamulatuxukopexelizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/31814458183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d3d5a323c830b3f6eb220757eaaafa0/2591859295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/pasogubiludenazejufuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f0fac6878---wemava.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_off0000dbb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB3 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 4269dbf3457fce27d220799748d6786f34d4dc5f31a6491d5f6d99c0659470af
font_01_sfnt_off0001070f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070F 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 9e2c1c155e7ec7ed9aa6dc48e192315ad8e61b3232789d037e2f40694cdf6d0c
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1