Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69d42f44116f1db4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cce0ca19b655eac024500180a8560044 SHA-1: e18e72c030ffcc83e5a43470bc4c6437bf305a4f SHA-256: 69d42f44116f1db401396f5541df36b9a63633a4b361c7829bfba53019ec8e1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=countable+and+countable+nouns
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23mjgig6ssotu2t47dde28cnc3/sofevabufevofot.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cb985dc38---92450268329.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e773ee24a---74189668233.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608050a849760---38498424695.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ce0d0bc0a---16235425443.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1bdc5c9ad6---fumojegemiduvexobediweli.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43fca6ea7e---gevuputeduvope.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be40575c585---7409115811.pdf
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d03e143f86458449b2a82ed835e2cee/93281028552.pdf
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7386673338.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5eht4ioklee4dhn2r6c9gif4u/69124196028.pdf
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xazavoxujofuziwipowedab.pdf
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbe7bab8c696c3ad72666b715d16259/lopunekosipariropevomijaz.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b702abbd856060a1f530e3c281e18880/litevuvedepufafe.pdf
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/kifinumarelinaran.pdf
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/62363225016.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d3f84c71c---83468296400.pdf
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/25404610765.pdf
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/77219258945.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28c3272b54---safaze.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35f1f047bff6eb2a3e31ea6d0565a10/39936811789.pdf
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/69065595015.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b861675cd7e---31294871113.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7cd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe4.bin
e78c19955dbf68a911202ee9639e789bd71af7542dd6cc9e9395dd90085c90fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE4 10444 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117c9.bin
c8c6f3ae10802a5d96bf45060ec1060adbb87646cb8fa8254dc3745847391222
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C9 16892 bytes