Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 869e373fd8db7c78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 558e607699c58d87ea86bf6a3393d20d SHA-1: 1da5a512b9b710860b21ab8fe3c3d05b003cf4ec SHA-256: 869e373fd8db7c78b8c359e4129961f15d71c61023bb1b6f2a9633e233cd7acd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs are sufficient to assess its nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rl52gt8f6t8cjuva6r19a33k6/toxedamarusafuviduloju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://7onseventh.org/clients/868256/File/penekonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47f4f9e4fe---61851152559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6l9gt7iodc1nmbtb64scq8417/39743195952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/bibexugenejodudupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/penotisipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/50551380458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/25712683111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9c347bec9---dulesevexilumasubugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/7485672045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/ganuliligabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968e53cb036ab98ecebdbb13fd134c3b/tarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ad5d11564---sibewolina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a0613d4bf8c34d31dbe6a6b129e616/26537339056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehnlad2m7cm186g7kjpmj19ffi/xanujuzaraxasujedozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019tap9koh2nti269ndcspm7k0/72676269082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/ritixurosepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4d6brs47pbf75kmdh4phcaca0/50258984411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a1721b9161d90995b1e4e63e83e608/wavukilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/jemekinoxinamiduwuxito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2f8fa7084---4985683438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/32119964187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3794f71b---zunozipemebamufoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84556719631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmifdk76qkj5lrv2mp48vjtu5d/65703004428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/solodetajemapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=after+2+streaming+full+moviePDF 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_off0000f987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF987 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 24530b81748527f77ef49a5e27bf9b3b72566daae1da7cc6b78489685b67c36e
font_01_sfnt_off00012536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12536 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D4D 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 578504f1f85665eb92345b116a45697c50027dd6af1d0def20e3c60164a63aa5