Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69e64f2c75cf751…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 11:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e7669aed001765f0e8dd2daf7b513afb SHA-1: 2f1babcada25572bb38edd8e81c3dc9e845507b4 SHA-256: a69e64f2c75cf7514855d2585cc04bb398636ab390042faf40fa09edb59a4a3b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or scam-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings indicate a likely attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm8bokvnjmd2eup7oqi0t7pn1t/13931566231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://slhs1958.com/clients/18590/File/4186759970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_7F9958481DA8089B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/nateje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b896cd692a4---79674660974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffk2e1qifr0at8221u28pj4j0/weloseleditozela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4788637cb38fc7a11a39fe4d18ff0f0/kaxugomovigufasegetagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210801001214_1798195033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55379ccfd6d2734fba1454fbb56cd526/50325230349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/jisikexinoveveter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210627_064835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkec833cnkp4d26hi3c89ptrmt/90775222403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/20315917077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1482679b9---tukosidugugizudumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aee922c1c---mowuxivakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/83004467309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3fri950coaqbdcf9r1mak6vlo/lulopotaziwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6a375c74b6---tupekofefaguluwebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/pidibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/60537379733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b127b269652---lerodijeninutupopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eb407a087---gijasorizaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/jonubaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/bugasitipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=axl+movie+download+filmyzillaPDF 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_off0001021b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021B 10556 bytes
SHA-256: d873b4db78af3313075eaebc17562967d9d7eae0191a4ce1c7851e7b5b2ab6ec
font_01_sfnt_off00011a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001324d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1324D 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 35b9fbadaff57e32a192a7a9ec937856ebd2038c5b8bd0c2f60d9cb65cb5fd67