Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 969e894c20e4b293…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:18:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6a75199d9f49349cc07aab79210451ba SHA-1: 292ade99c4114f25dc3b82d26ff9e91b86d3c857 SHA-256: 969e894c20e4b2939d4b330efc6db2560a77445e971bff25e7e0dc27dcd8b008
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58607947312.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/90833530906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa2e04e1d4---76189675102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/557ba6822a16caaf7e271929130df818/vaterapiwudewanitata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/24780831309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/17971274065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentali.cz/files/files/76994675075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://george-dollie-nelson-mass-reunion.com/clients/3/33/33de80a6744892f7217a81a137582dad/File/8666037244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4lil0j37ghrircbkr5hs31b5j/xopaginabusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/51528882703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22183136840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c513e8b4e4c93c618b62a96b89579bc1/pixuxetidukaduputom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tuniluxakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krcgnc8ddecrotguco3rquudb0/93853296934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc4853b53f0---gajuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijubawotogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210713_045929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/noseropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c55e32df4a69631c96604065812575f/5471954808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210725_5B8FDBB6398590BD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b795799c029---badisuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e753733a49a6d607093fa0773fd437e/fumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gomalagipigujawavejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/fusivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d657a93c31380dd88af6ad45025413/44596081324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=word+doc+to+pdf+file+converterPDF 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_off0000bfa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFA5 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 3d14e3dcff11e42fa45945c65b4d892a28c7a0ddb2d33925faae8b9bb219602d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d70a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70A 16476 bytes
SHA-256: e6781d5d3289c4965259318b1a2a99e80920bbf49c635fabec9019d890b64486
font_02_sfnt_off0001017e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1