Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b69c6d818a0e5207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 07:41:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a570e6cb07c316e505571beb9fd4442c SHA-1: 0c7bac343be37804f2396577b55eba99edfa3752 SHA-256: b69c6d818a0e52073c768e8081665e49f9493090c3365df6cdc5a1b8abf0f664
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+teach+a+dog+to+give+a+paw PDF link annotation
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083785b17120---55157003505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2823f517---sobudijosapezutunisetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d141ee0fa---fodabasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/lifadovivibepixivotekoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vesubemiviteridezuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8sm1kim8sm2p10c65l74noevn/85737111178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/38791340794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d077c14d83---43440063954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da06906c19---96923918795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afb52d8eca---fifudepezuwivomabuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/37301605520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/46023229159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530036d10d3adadcc7422370a941c13f/63764376307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1vl43k8ukgie8tthl72bnol74/zarisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/gafisiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095db812028b---52008727210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607617b25e806---6733932397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48090496172a36481dec05162fdce429/wofugirilijuxumusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/8125583159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/tapikenuvejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/dotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/61880611656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b2130f8f38aabf0db0066a7a4a69a1f/55822320835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/mujobatetalimaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea70be9a39---pesunerevokidusifope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512104809493531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/wibukulikakolewizugu.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://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_off000117a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A1 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 74b9e6f9252610118cddac11daa839d044f7795e81f203d70564b96ca2fcb800
font_01_sfnt_off00012f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F86 16820 bytes
SHA-256: 91f520408b8e3083541af481e66142eac541ff331b32b00eb76de429d0d42554
font_02_sfnt_off00015b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1