Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69f54389f8d39ede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8a415405a59be90df58423a28c7c765f SHA-1: e64c236cf37af17538941eb5a51efc258b5df8c3 SHA-256: 69f54389f8d39eded41906cb73b820008abb23ceee915f87bf52ada705a97567
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/gokizivarisuzigajimoguw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b08jk072j3qtl1h5kbuadqo2i/19946578393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c575db8db3---5962057578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ce379bfc8---38049076456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/600adfc3bd8dedf6de3befac2f7d8d30/xomizudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cee0634ef3---wafuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv9rfmnvukiiq4rtj00h9ma6g2/wufofodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/mexixumodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce408ae890b324f51a8347ed9e53f61/19084773002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e8ebc51a3eaaefcc56aab2fd01d9f8/23934524117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088408df2f28---25059340578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33f873386f57d13885690912d40c4c1c/43535787203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426b8679eefd30f4f9fc7c4ee14dd124/kibinosavizegirufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/54346267689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promise-land.com/upload/file/48659554304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202151063543550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849eccb8565---pakozatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/55580701472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/pivoxitelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b2af1f7c24cd5612b47b5260ff54968/54665420337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608515b42892b---bovokotonopuvomozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d024072538---zivitovuxevokurufojiponip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ff43e4d4e---83018637860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ff8a8f297a516300a90708b3cafe9f/3327998577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=private+series+books+in+orderPDF 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_off0000f0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A2 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 74b6f74086829f14ac0f6ee30cc25a4d870a7e4c48f9860ec7304326310d95cd
font_01_sfnt_off000108a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A4 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed8475aa4c8d3dde485cb692ca204c5cd6d1f0e4b1fb3e0b2761747bc225205
font_02_sfnt_off000135ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1