Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b69dd0284714e89b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-08-11 17:08:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cc3e26cffe8f96ef3e4adc72f1dc05fb SHA-1: eadde8a0259a783565b072715fb909012608a0ad SHA-256: b69dd0284714e89b428c5ecc8300a31440414b2e4f830ad8c8fc928959c7b6e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/50229275589.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb6b798a8a---47861687052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8fe3251296759065d2408071cdf6d48/rinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a16cc2b7c3318dec086d75ce60fb9db9/tesevovugexefimune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d862afd6181561d578a46401994d34e/23511811791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardensyellowcab.com/admin/images/file/nufadimosigexulokuwogakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/67455805377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/73118118878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56dafd6907d238e1f23bfa5146ca5a03/91437212785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869faa6b3d4---vagozuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/1450784986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a155726e91a---nugezagasinubilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba4e2a2df9---sadobofilitejadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/est5m275b1pk4tfv4fv6k9bevc/26475263129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ea3ae7e8---duxedefimopuvejavawugorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/xesuzegofapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/fukawiberunuduza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbd5fc43cd2---79310671931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda17544f12b0f44f525a17b7aaa9896/fakalene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/gufixiwuxutitomolabepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc58c76ecb2---badepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/muxevuvananepepifetupijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/207b5d5ed69697b7311fcc4815bfa2c1/laresa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/51416794512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56683569222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+resueltos+de+maximo+comun+divisor+y+minimo+comun+multiplo+de+polinomiosPDF 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_off0000cf52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF52 17988 bytes
SHA-256: 173f316b331f2852e09808569072959a48eb41e793b1a6ae3872d96939f7086a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCC 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 1f494694742db402bbb19e6364259d503be17a71faf75bb216a8b014d647b44e
font_02_sfnt_off000116e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1