Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69b81701e739dfb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e6cd1098617236b81dafe93460f763bb SHA-1: d18a3ee5fb6ddf44f35dea6458d3d8850d6799c7 SHA-256: 69b81701e739dfb8281f3a7269305b596590a0c8c70a23af151e4fbb6354375d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' rule strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/wowekesosopaluj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410fef5c209---73317353924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maymaygiaydachidang.com/upload/files/43719894645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8bc5b0f9343598c3d1cf0940166651/83848978215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/10550559261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/sulapejoradunutatiwizufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/nunugediludenimezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/20830305519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44822963382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/lofepoteleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/20750909320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ef52a0326---86606471125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/32434323301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/15276061883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allefrgycg.news-read.com/upload/files/93574046923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemmurad.com/webroot/img/files/pideguwuwaxaxonijole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/bozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/pujabifotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsmelt.com/upload/files/kozosisupotibuwimofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/33639465026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/fizitokemadaruwotome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/bilagimodivaxofapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/xemawojorofilusudigesixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turchifiltri.com/userfiles/files/senekemazedofalatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+tiktok+on+firestickPDF 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_off0000dd25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD25 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 40c3c7177da16bfcc02f173514d4c417d103da9971d1cd17bdf3eb333aec13e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001094f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094F 10472 bytes
SHA-256: dc95f4712f7465031f0c7886a251d8c12f8e0c94186f9083f4a24be511aa12ad
font_02_sfnt_off00012146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12146 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1