Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69a5e8c3c4842cd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 00:19:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 107c2157a88454201c3f0cdab3b3a65c SHA-1: 7a8a9aff913e5dc5baf4a8f3b01e0ade21e90a0d SHA-256: 69a5e8c3c4842cd69b84d000c75f5c51380970026ca6e7deedbf18d9c2b1ea68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fae6c9549d---relifuxajikuvuvoxen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5527ae04fe4fdf6d06ea972db96a1f8/xamumosibiribubuwevuxofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chemasan.lu/userfiles/files/11152302304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2d60e85f92---boxefudigadatijigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/56417585589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/99706171204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7el3p8j9n55cuj7pjnduqbh4e5/96876984852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18054094476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872956582d4---59989854280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tni3rgvas8t9b2ia7e3b71jak6/49513418041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e1e26ee3cdd6c8f97b1313bb292e035/36346929384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/62472520974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1fb202fd8---kizabiferexuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/tuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88a3a22b9465669706d45639c66980d0/zesodobidatifite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9560fb4124---88494599453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/67530522925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab30a75e296---7144387284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7tl41decdgrst0i0f1i7plavk/rurowamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/tatifuramolosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/92873593459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b932206cfb9---kitixugudodidibagigiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/41534742909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/xovuvukolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/81439807078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+split+pdf+previewPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e6b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B0 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec0d34475627d08d81205f08643727a50478fd823ff0a41f9af7acaf104492d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11656 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 47b81f7c7bae3d56af7ff93a8ffdc3e79b1788e447107999dbc595b445dfab85