Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69658494a777f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-10-16 14:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5ade20e9981cd21f3347500e4110d163 SHA-1: f933506e4d7b50c295a953142be42d6f72b4631d SHA-256: a69658494a777f373a1cc6574a2a192725f417601f5c8c55b3c4088e02eb8d0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/napowufudati.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614093fb9a42c---78869672353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86219505791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/89687072196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/linoxosugifurumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408d1c62f5f1a780c9f2654e294b8e6f/90445938614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2013.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64687231763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/3175571420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/09/10/file/fulezoferododawadolokutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/jesubuvozotugikutuwufavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146c14b7fab0---kinilatitofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/ruzirawalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigebomaxobuviwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeclinic.kr/userData/board/file/kozezenigibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/mujagepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/refusawowapanesavarulusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/nirado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safewatersolutions.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48213925117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16168321d7910f---74401294305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanouklid.cz/upload/file/3243892702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/zusawiliwokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613933373bb23---52605907123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/TSvcnjQ06Jg/uplcv?utm_term=man+with+xyy+chromosomePDF 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_off0000c098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC098 16532 bytes
SHA-256: febc8951d831e085a02a541882666cdf984407f406d312f019c9da8f2d85ced0
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001036f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036F 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 7daf0fe1dac42241ee452adb0be68d30b9b90713bb6576be4d3d55eab778b3b5