Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69f31d61cba123de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 40b76cb2f421f1b9d6484e4bf7e67dfb SHA-1: 8776de3e90848bb31fbeb20908d8558b73c43c68 SHA-256: 69f31d61cba123de3a9f8c295c198849e7704372d6886f4cca0a95e6bf71a491
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites, in turn, host further PDF files, suggesting a chain of redirection designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c267c309e89---xibanowaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/82694915987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e4a1a0b2189219e1fa9edf034dcd6c/rekefosizumoxizakisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i60vq0p8qeis7ibja2fbfa5qc0/41110755703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/73511897677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/todavopefijadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607750a007781---36028469960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e82d6a5e6eb6cdc58692979c77ef61/melijetinujuzubewupugejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/20023034425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2a4f4aaa7---72349072908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/perod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01c276f29f---xujitutuxolitezari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/xagexexatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266982b3a985166ae1a3638df18aa19f/pepokedipefowavamonenuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/41786329621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/92019591194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lnfg3qejqbv25a8vfh3oe4103/15884328933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905862562c3---50501019108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehighschoolclassof59.com/clients/867562/File/runusodokutabebaxuzidaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hki7rrf3rq8rakbbr4uq7tkitm/nedolaxerimuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607782a5b179e---59757727067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hypoxemia+and+asthmaPDF 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_off0000e575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE575 17060 bytes
SHA-256: c753cdd06cda5f2f6425a4328ad0251819eb38c17b8d3cba715e5502fd887b17
font_01_sfnt_off000111cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CF 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 6adc45de45dd75f8ef80cf8ede24c3e0f7ee2c4f6909873993724bb4b62b2aee
font_02_sfnt_off00012a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1