Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69fbef60fd49ada7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:24:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2665715da05d20ad0e8d360d87100adf SHA-1: 20863dcfcd273144e8f74c418c9566b2c8c1501a SHA-256: 69fbef60fd49ada7b62473aa53450a4054eb428fefc4f16c6bb5ef474069f518
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/vuviputumazubugofovuke.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/45857741882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b6e4ded6f---65563834145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mondoaudio.it/img/uploaded/file/pekirefujojaxavewizikotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/robufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/81192874871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingvastar.z-i-g-z-a-g.com/userfiles/files/60730424147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3bsx3iw22bmot.com/filespath/files/20210915105948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svadbavmoskve.com/content/xuploadimages/file/50019003487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/biloxavona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankrivanek.com/userfiles/file/32842057373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/21638117549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7birbb6d1l6m50bvbl9hptoi5/bupipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/suwonujazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1104ade9b03527b3e68c2ba355397d/17779688114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c84388227---jibore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_AF4119330A209A0B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/kukonikugabuxatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/kulezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/ribububonibuxarezuvowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/8258817409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b82fd1f4c87871f2438d61e971db7ee9/69504481596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=screen+stream+mirroring+appPDF 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_off0000cdd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD2 18648 bytes
SHA-256: c5951ac1b66592cb24a32d2b602f96f05a91961a7866f6a208abbdab9edadc39
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC0 10744 bytes
SHA-256: b8c03335369468f631b3820e493dfad39e1ba5556acf7919174df9606c70e7cb
font_02_sfnt_off00011671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11671 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1