Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69ef673cb1812bc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 16:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a479203dceaedefef0721e848ea56c01 SHA-1: adfca2b2f5275df3724eba017b0bc21ebe8d1169 SHA-256: 69ef673cb1812bc13bf3e38dcf306ad192209ec5ad92af4960927741d0cf9211
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further support its malicious nature. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj9uihvc6tccpdenls7fn9s0b4/40475124685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/xitajitamato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/73049998578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/88775559728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/ninipujukonatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb7vcpc7j0qo63olgd5kpcfoa6/pumixesogetijilazunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/58219594675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/zozize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/54595555934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/dabimigawikijasixadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-civaux.fr/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefozegefosaronux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/29992352681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffed444f6173acf98056606e0a0bc32/3286509467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/wafuzegazinedilebasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/rotenedakomufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/pozezedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/58959978967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hksnbg77di0ad49jt57nnuug8s/54419063344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613912863bcac---92819136170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/ramevezexeras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22800193656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/79456864766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/lisigajazexatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles/file/18399515609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31903282812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613baafad376b---42083492079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=zombieland+1+castPDF 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_off0000ea92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A9 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 6b667571556c52033da6e6813a072eb65a275be08c757153081e913808c79a8d
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD7 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 088be4ff8844dabd19138a33713448c492ae7c09fe1f41b129dc254ea1f2c6a3