Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 769f4d63af333f21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 22:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b6fa85840eedb631f0fcfb9cd33a1624 SHA-1: 2f25631da7a8bfa23dcea7192fde6c6e674d2836 SHA-256: 769f4d63af333f21cbf86b4b99e50603927d6f72d7379c86020ce930a403fa53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate the malicious link redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih6tsdp175ttcgrs7vrvk2hif4/97328378073.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75026020386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/japekipexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3107696529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23f76eb7f3---notulilawujugejadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b063703cacc---gugekizesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fan290gaiu06rlk9gk3i698vps/wutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/rimowevepipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607856831095f---wuvudivomigukarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64832e3b1a8e9029255b225f7bed028e/67753171880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/84945397118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b876af18ab25e80cc9b9c2f93cc6dc4/16190995345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/79865504879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgatedesign.com/Images_upload/files/47986826433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/99771965587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d51fedac59b---rorajuzamotixuxatifafigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def885a08ac3059d434d52224f7d43c5/xerokegubiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/39107805700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec07518e69b7494722941256d74acaf8/lokamuzivutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b5944dadc---dokodisajulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/kugileposakevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/voxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad122ea2758---35081081287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents//files/kenowakiwusisijeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e5b035d56---46823832331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+swans+like+to+eatPDF 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_off0000eca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA7 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 61d4786c476971caeaf95b9b00064d2e2ad4eec4dfa1e2fa83d22f8a73114de3
font_01_sfnt_off00010437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10437 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 43aa5571f4d7a597c5cf6d1efe15159d8fb93382eb80d79854a93991c41dde94
font_02_sfnt_off0001334d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1