Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69c1b04df7b8051…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a2118dcf70b03c93c0867d29d7fe0e1a SHA-1: d152c611258106ef977ddb560ea8d766359400cd SHA-256: c69c1b04df7b8051b373276615ce1de278ce53e60761654bfdd27a192ed2cce3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating an attempt to redirect users to compromised websites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of PDF-specific heuristics and external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=8+part+of+speech+with+definition+and+with+example PDF link annotation
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/19896980706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a4683170---78511301684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lklg0om860uptn86744mqefvld/vagawinidesiboxumaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5969841dc372fa290c34845c82fdb75/78611666319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009db52aa0f2d7b7e3eff95b6df05c3c/fivakoniwujagotezusogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zoguzadiferabapizoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f08ccd71d---86214613437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85f5fe2bdd---govidezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandercdg.com/clients/36029/File/wulekifiwikotisofigepogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/gewovefamurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/23211020860a470309c424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2ab79198a---jijazavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5e313b17e9---88338658746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af87ba4d474---sekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef60e9f219---53357107791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/niketotirulokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68036191600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747bbd1f087---71569872282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/supawiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a820c3d9379---85244380975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3eunj2d03hhilaobvcus2s77/felufemibuzuwitidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae19f93789---65191355977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609405bfedeb9---31381026854.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_off0000eb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB49 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 10aeb3631ae82ed9c49115a94a472246487b7ae37bed79104d20fc637db81a3b
font_01_sfnt_off000117b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC9 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 8b4f3c7216fffebc5f935c1886ed738b1d6a4a9b2a79810ddc011847ea14fca1