Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69d7b0d91d3823c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:49:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bf6ca8e32b73d351a919c5a72def3210 SHA-1: e040d71ed69d7e926868511f3acac7d5fa186404 SHA-256: 69d7b0d91d3823c866f83487bac836843e8ec49ecc95634d1117a967933e07f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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 http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cfaee8f44---ledinesugusaputamo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/65318796584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5b209770e3ca33fbdc75df30dae300/44252599659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/44696273276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5fc04e0df---76877742901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bfa0e01d1---62135857201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21d4dcbf47311c575d492730cddb6cf/44140557382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/tipefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072be2b9fecd---guxaguvumokijomiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/80480716612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/gamoxifuwivikasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f31b5d93ca379003af2e5f80bda217/29269425659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3f7768c0c8f896efa9d1c87fb17972/14003957930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/mukebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad51f197a5e---73734909754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1f84a26b4---99589253015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b08bce3cb3ed4810b6fd047cf11430/susofamedoletudegovameno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/selezerufeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/budepuzamaforobifijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr0r74n1cvvspoth839602js8u/4948934518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5ig9ohkf1i3sas2ko9caiupg1/86569758941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ece6eda6b2---betujazawegogokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/9462190380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cantilevered+roof+designsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e86b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86B 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 197f7f5e07849599ca9c9101149489cdd2dfa532efa22a4891a4ff9c71c1d774
font_01_sfnt_off000100b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CA 19076 bytes
SHA-256: 6b2a6ca9e8663e0379a9465b53c1899638fd02480284ebc0bd7386af098e1503
font_03_sfnt_off00014a9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A9F 1732 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3c947262022625ef2d4cfb2d0fa10a94f23c97611fd4c7364bfcc62a76ce6a