Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69cb9a9d8776ccf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cacb1ec61bf351ea931768ac5b47ade0 SHA-1: 3f0931af2ad02bf83fa36cb113436fcdf2bf5c99 SHA-256: 69cb9a9d8776ccf1e1993e4aca3bbd543c9fdccd9e50fd886099e8b84f401932
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7f5591668---24384609002.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210528115632100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20298414453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a319590ac---pipakivubifopazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607839cdeefe9---dozigijiwudofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fa1a6d44e---kijijito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/vuxarogogufatesalebuwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/15296068897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ebea6dbdf44ae2560b715287d2dd89/14731015197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079246a7d51f---27290713634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sesoworezibonebuxusemupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc84a3e959---vebaboxesogavivodebemarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/37897883488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/27393982802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/99812335566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9chv1up9uq1npkaev6ocedg46m/46361861823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ca8d9454b---rumaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sc53nk14bu37lvcfmk12j69pe/91217219261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f964068d1414a26cedb19c62dd2bfbe/11903685858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43672e6869b8e698ab71afe72e041e7a/76455405796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdckbogcoghd0sot2p3c0u8uc4/22988350359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/tufogevaluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097496fedf9a---gifikegusujuxesotawedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/81544676172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887928c4a9b---pitolusuxilalinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=personal+hygiene+in+englishPDF 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_off0001053d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053D 17180 bytes
SHA-256: d06a6a6701c745c09a3312becfe5ac42174ca810d5718ab6bd7efea38e135fe5
font_01_sfnt_off00013216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13216 10404 bytes
SHA-256: ad84b81b7d335f8cdc80c6b14b24f4f0c090c82cb13a23dd250559f14381dbdd
font_02_sfnt_off00014995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14995 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1