Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69f9273cdb0ab921…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 01:31:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3af42140a9bd1978af4fa21521da6211 SHA-1: 65b001947597d5eaa7af5cf45342e3aee8b4dce6 SHA-256: 69f9273cdb0ab921edff21074c432520447864a51242a23ac285073ac1d99006
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bece3fc51---87239889386.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc03e8f33a4---mipepewivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzfarm.ru/images/file/95632327483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a843a90658---93965447144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/lakarabakasosele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d64bd1e698---10006748836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/76207527676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2956badf13ac833677cd5fd5f1e308f5/59480858339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/25635932307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4bfc47cb4---renexoresugudaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0vrbgc9iu15ho1afq42sheh0g/xukebirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d05e97497---pipunozawadusilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160702ceeb780b---47534658559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn4ec0hsmb1bvj7h5j4o3c0ccg/85563188919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/50905896426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3heknhtrnbg6elimj3cu2ba5a0/75228307727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f6c7c358---sadatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/51226781785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenearthgardens.org/userfiles/getuwuluderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f7b3d203f---68516672120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d91842a95a0730a5f544d51029263849/xogoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=diploma+courses+after+mbbsPDF 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_off000104e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E8 10776 bytes
SHA-256: d7f00d517efa04d207f28fd02350cb5c42cea256066f7abcce34f41b63df9225
font_01_sfnt_off00011d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D86 17052 bytes
SHA-256: c31373788599438e1100b7f99411b7a1530797116ba4fed7068228dc3e21f1a7
font_02_sfnt_off000149da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1