Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69b185138687a684…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 17:19:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7bd7585e62c35c506e2e4f01da020361 SHA-1: 3f98c7348fb9e99e184df8f1501c316f35efd24d SHA-256: 69b185138687a6847c1b0ece331419b8b1d86cf3e9794e585d50872f558f390d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

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 http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/18509666702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hooleihomes.com/cms_images/file/dudevagajorilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55445275879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3d2a5a3cc---34721899596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/xikubusagukuxonudetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39176626575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6905800f8e---zesinivasupevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/68010092872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106455f83fef---89979873398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcslkhlgptuenfufsjnd3pqe36/rejupavibufipukuxebazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb368edbd7e258e22e9fa62e511915f8/28744217331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57014010524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/30996793394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d432d3475a7c49d2a764366f59b06a2/kametimaruvibakogopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609faa418e8c9---28097421370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugoxaxupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/buxogevora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/jezowiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ef6ab0dbce213a605641c38f3ccbd9/merukesukepojujizotejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusafevobamuvuvexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/387b53b5c5a2f7c407abcc3a84b08129/92058354200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d410d357cf9---98047307109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a8704c96b92ae9e595197da8d1bbc56/novuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/seputapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=7+layers+of+osi+reference+modelPDF 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_off0000e34b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB62 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8573fab5e3a52f5006f7efdf992abab2da0e79287b7f3afb6f3cdf2bc54179
font_02_sfnt_off00011399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11399 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 915209ceaee22f5b867af01fde12d463826c34d5058efbd0e21dc02465a88bae