Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69a62c68fa6193e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 276d82eb6508b5d960b78c974ee5eccd SHA-1: 8b87f2c8ac5e19c26a7516afdfee62a4a1f8faaa SHA-256: 69a62c68fa6193e3ecf1dfa9552723dba46065818afc9c38d6160b09cc62c1a4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to various websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations or using IP addresses directly, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=4+major+dimensions+of+entrepreneurship+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/nokipemovasiwitezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/32887390707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminesenlikoglu.org/resimler/files/98709386194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/nimafubavizuzinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgekc.com/media/userfiles/file/93275358509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/fupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210702000305532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210726_FBE48E497F35DD5F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745ace5b226---xurawulagesenonoveboxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6318b2df5---piwetutilobedagar.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://svenskafik.se/uploads/fckeditor/file/xutudubeziwose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o0tvbcbb0bqpnlujgeg2sspo7/modikifejeruwezewokisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73992681568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/narufuwoniwubarenizafeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725012bb508---44697076987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/sizipijosirexudugowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1627269595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7533c43ebb8a61ca8571edcaf7156bd/16337981881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekodoxexedonofozujedoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-31/20210731173829820274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hthdvhfshdqk2292umdgfpbbn5/38248226371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30faa442e6442673311a65e161b3bc58/22972235893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607514609fde2---2950576747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a8c35213ccad0306cb0acd8c17c102/14740771848.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_off0000dd6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6D 10928 bytes
SHA-256: b2ab8654acd0cf9cb4aa0dc351f0a4dda80555aa8b965415b8600f0235aa7896
font_01_sfnt_off0000f679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF679 18864 bytes
SHA-256: 144118ebf676f5977ade2918801f3c0256c83df3e60d9134f52e3365ea6a794b
font_02_sfnt_off000127a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1