Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69da93340c4f476e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 00:07:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 027bbdc34934b335e07363ba445530fd SHA-1: 753bafa00a36b4c425f84b9ba62030d975501204 SHA-256: 69da93340c4f476e42eb9b741593c54913e958ba3291c5a29c4d3df8f8019e88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the use of compromised CMS upload storage suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and leverage potentially untrusted hosting.

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://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5378dbd3814d8b59100ce9528cfde80a/70395385131.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/mujubegege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894b06cc6df---pudafudiliruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f69c5b585---32007254146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d55f5d29806d5e4a9171b5a5a4a4f5/bonibetupulotegiduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.chupload/file/8984344343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52821c5c0df59413ac0324d7e356d5e5/sevazalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b24d7f334a5f2530479e226bf9128e7/kitimalubokurigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6106bcd76c---pixezelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714ftra0e93itgd2j1dsa9kr31/67944703102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad6d87bbce1104b77281372e8ee9e00/77954878016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1db9e10ac---6845400030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89179a5cc05afb3ba557055111d28a9f/42744626786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/26335100133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1911af427---fijesoloxesukoreziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/82373097314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b150db339---24591433529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/rewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7a02669e6f728f8a9b4a92ad6ad1c53/dizofufifugeweradisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/tatirexunalosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa83af5c778733785cec8afab88af7b/xifovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1802a0661d---49152776900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=excessive+thirst+and+stomach+painPDF 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_off000115e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012df6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF6 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 206fda4949ae2af1cd4df5ae5edfe1a4516903d73412e121d1e1536a87aaa9f6
font_02_sfnt_off00015af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AF3 10884 bytes
SHA-256: fd87e165f32faa7a4d4c8e073dba28b65c959e00a387cdf00cdccc8da0b5b143