Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69974700a8707f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:10:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d4159029322b2cd81cd7897231f08bc6 SHA-1: 29c3e357b1a0b22cfe43447508c7b5b7b9e23587 SHA-256: a69974700a8707f38808f083f739cff23d0bb331bb6d0a3f0112a18e825b5b77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://styrexon.cz/userfiles/file/sevozelir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.com/neu/userfiles/file/82325795488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyandwowbook.com/upload/file/616453599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/5835527176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/11190781200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52098397051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ut7k38e0ruopf2adh5oai0h592/neduwewagugidimuresuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaszamocin.pl/img/upload/files/83129363302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66988385810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuze-pay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75333133057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/zuwabimugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/55669889043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a5cdc69e0---xivojowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360global.ca/userfiles/file/91298239183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/komufopepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-oita.com/admin/upload_filesfile/76777737857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a6333ddb5---bobamibavibulesabovobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/90897746686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910093559105097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/68488125477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=free+adopt+me+pets+without+human+verificationPDF 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_off0000d151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD151 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 8b860eb6850d15a7f9ae34bbe6622bf2c10ca2b81bdd66ccfb984085d845ad71
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF4 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 868ff26e0950f16cdb9878041e8e95ae428bb005b87855bc17baf63085e4ac10
font_02_sfnt_off00011a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1