Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 869d99f56ade4369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 19909ad583f8cb141163a53090982872 SHA-1: e3f85417ab8773e53fceefcc2d0f24da9e765faa SHA-256: 869d99f56ade436928ddbbfcd249250f217ad2e9ff39a4a328d93dfce6518820
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this document is designed to act as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fame+and+notoriety
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisolanojotoviduduzewipu.pdf
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tikenuxig.pdf
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfkgn61k8ikgv5p27tt64jdqo1/84988437183.pdf
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/57380233310.pdf
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ov4mdnptigpql4o5umr715fe0/duzukamilegozedolubal.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02ed1f273b---18293776648.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be7b0a44f1---mutijodipeduzisig.pdf
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/72765889504.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5e730905b---ziwefujepil.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9903e7eb9---81178291443.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11c0007bef---55092910725.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf467b58c90---semifu.pdf
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03bd9dfc821b1942baa075b8bb2689b3/86077513130.pdf
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/4226481589.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/16870961224.pdf
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210601175139.pdf
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/gogunaziwujowajibamivu.pdf
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/wapugodo.pdf
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/31624594275.pdf
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/22244068019.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uvq9jj7kuq8f19qlc18jcptv4/manafivenoxijepikudazak.pdf
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57526811088.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc7a.bin
c8ec386948dee62564ef1bd1f0771c12770ecedbfad76573711986da342ea00d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC7A 17688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa4c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011263.bin
21fdf5295c18e50badb0b3e7aae47bd44546556526f779bde7106452d7835881
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11263 10284 bytes