Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69e26846b50d58d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b65cb2c6c07f9b6985cd8232d00b0b2c SHA-1: 9bf3ca9ce4ddd0346b8dad50530b88967d35f33a SHA-256: 69e26846b50d58d9f659a74e7a6cc28abab57be40f83b777254b8557678b247b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other potentially malicious domains. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778906dfae5---zizadakavegaxizubugako.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgsvsfvn5i553tq7jj9cgkmebk/94573607144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea9fcec6d331fb996edba5d52f6ba1cf/manage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/51885676592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/jumazemudilijapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/vexawunafaritabodefumena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8343af3c8f---lajaligunojanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4d023a9517fcc6a3373718d5611786/gotolapeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442253bd112768ddcb64a59a5c489b80/mugavekiroxotifegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b5883a11c43fdbc99bc305080a5f1e/wutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ed2883b6aa21dedbef1b7e293268b0/lofulegapogilurabelowaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6a487i0kv1mbnnvqapf3hqin7/71996728115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/23632140723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210601171035_760672351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/13646934662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/75762309584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021062307122270554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h09oofnqr87res1q64a5avlkmg/fasobazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b140e11e9---lutukivasovuferudadumigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/41416906859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e870eafcbc---kunofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f55ae70c03---93019570371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3ffh2sgunb879s2s2frib5144/71971100971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210624193846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bdf06b111---suvejetoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sausage+in+a+holePDF 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_off0000eafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFB 17444 bytes
SHA-256: a91a81bb4cb96fb3d7cc3b5ed8c7804a272710845501bcf14837ad2984d1fefa
font_01_sfnt_off000103b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCB 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 71c7e36c2c74fb8654c6b5d948f296f8aec97274e4bc46558962f7603600e329
font_03_sfnt_off0001330d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1330D 18948 bytes
SHA-256: 59cf0aa2f2a8ae4e6ef9e52f4146ab56053e4518cd2b68d977d19079c8bf34f0