Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 869757c668436625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-26 13:24:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8547149a10c1f7a813f1e5199a667c89 SHA-1: b173b24cc0749ab4386a04c6bda636e4defa1866 SHA-256: 869757c66843662518821e22732cf6ef8e20191180043e4fa3b6a30b490cc21e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/bewotutirinanobabozijidi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vv2r6q56du1i3v6jj8tfmok0o1/71965494540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ee7aa6160---kolofugujuresopefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/26708971922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/wopejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/pekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/bubixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/vuruwabarubazofodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b7602ddf7---tadomoporaroluwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buduzutajeviwozinoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609769db3cbb8---17078319310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab523551e34a6fbcd6a404ef286038e/9628698435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/70885170664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072289612b68---detolevuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bmh37c3r7etavs4sbsulsjpt4/dipebotininot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/27166884794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f10772c7bc659e9c0e2d07d567441207/semematojopisosuremuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5870d3496b07a9bfc69f45a311379c00/ruzavapiwilojuvodowelawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8200cf2355b7af11f42b4dbb9461d1e6/zagerevazedufijiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1980reunion.com/clients/e/e5/e5e9f74eb83211af097e98bf68d59c4c/File/89300781882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/41066317741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076203bd2802---60616996969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/us0rjkt0ltig97tpe24ojncvvb/51799464282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/medasatafazisitobovidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9a4053920---17266429662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=job+performance+review+answersPDF 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_off0000ea78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA78 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 78d273eb3447e5218b8d6603a1d10312a21895cb2a0cdb9e8989b2223157222f
font_01_sfnt_off00011451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11451 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 2fbc48109321500993ad12852d65a6b55a068122ae8215ec1e421cf5ccb7b7f0
font_02_sfnt_off00012cfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1