Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69cb0605f9f9a6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e0a7b4cb80993d117415b486921d248f SHA-1: 0776ad51e3dd1671dcb05a82b5d2d2248649910d SHA-256: a69cb0605f9f9a6f0d0fbb6fd4f77cafe3105bcb33563eae250f55e4ebf4d8c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous external URIs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wrong+turn+2021+download+480p PDF link annotation
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/damepibimolesapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kluchar.net/klucharnet/images/file/xavisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mapect.com/upload/fckeditor/file/durolukumaziputowokufuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/10212004622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/radoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwilenedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/75722468859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_5BD742B1DD90B3AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1d487e080---72457327876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8fcd53a3aad0eb55e935f0f284f039/bigubuzogabibiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzsienis.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/tanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21b6d43c6553772097ab1a802d8714f7/2443432168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/sukewesofajefopetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://civicwomen.com/ckfiles/files/wesibotokesozewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210919_150533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/zumavipikoxuzozeromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68312805841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/70050503695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilikinepaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specializzati.tecnaevolution.it/dataload/ckupload/81879671650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614009db6b33a---72327221630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://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_off0000d0af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C1 20096 bytes
SHA-256: 329afd9d4cb288d8567073bdce95487fc5b8cebcd11370862958783189506075
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC3 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 7528506e10e2bef115cc16631d6c5011926417dc370f13615ccfefae4f772936