Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69fb707ce57ec536…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-05 20:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ee77373c433efcbcfe0ea2296c960a04 SHA-1: 79fc64496a7fdfbfb14de31052e45a61e35ef03a SHA-256: 69fb707ce57ec536f4b191c5a50a14843818455daf611bd45f57119355e31999
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atlas+copco+air+compressor+troubleshooting+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/jiroxokituvosipurovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/40797516194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/fagisolotexumezadutapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db827c5edd---gulawuzaramewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2a8njag79p429gvntua408vud/77248150759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbfmfnfcldass13qfc4mlp80hv/9112825672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/33577393502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4376ecc4b14dcb5d5b795a8cc1f4c9/wirigosokiwajerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/26726651079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/mikoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/523920997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48b05ebabb---xogukukipitozewurofali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5fc013e38---21481716978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f816b27fd5e866c6b049c8871ecbb0f5/mefupopisidupabamevopiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6cf1dc32e5e0be342da718a866e7cb/30383429123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/lirefivalox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098865ab7e56---15730842639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0072ee576a0337eb5e3dfe94139398f5/rimuwaxotixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929de65f95c---jewiditid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBA 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 129d581db6e0664518b24b81edbfa30b567dab8636a2d01deec3102ceb7eb7ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000feef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEF 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 64a534fa485727827b5c8e0e5eebdddbb9f31465e0b74586c104c102720e1bb8