Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69c203a7cd5e6c2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:12:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: be9032c33689dc8395da9a5b714ac5a3 SHA-1: cb3856e00405c0bbcbc81b48080ab3c8ac259d2d SHA-256: 69c203a7cd5e6c2f92d04e107f1694f923631ddaf5b7f6c81a03ce78c7bec5f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier flagged it with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term=download+apk+minecraft+dungeon' in one URL suggests a lure for potentially malicious downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/63627282481.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/tusefepatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/97191180149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/64537772579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/wafodororoguvawuwojovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhoptik.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63913713676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109032142426202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/30876765188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/5065912748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/bisepagupifisabidekudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/pikevevagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/44130138029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/11713977431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/44858333480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/84842298250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/55060689231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145020f32e09---7341073679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc57be6e2d---jawawujewufobekaside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/45528008716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/nifadizigewitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dd380df41---90458340079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476da081db17667b1321b7245455dae9/kujusuvozovogigasogulari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/84869814810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59391436191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/51839639633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+apk+minecraft+dungeonPDF 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_off0000d4de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4DE 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 86cfa5895f08b01470ab5579e4c5e60170b3c6a606287abdae0b751355812bac
font_01_sfnt_off0001016a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11981 11076 bytes
SHA-256: c0cd08f276549608c7a0027ed6d47e17257456944213b85c861e2ac66df8666b