Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d269d01624ae2b32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9bb0d568ed3d40f2c30a306b0907d65b SHA-1: 998384a32a192fff0bb58e9335c11b7aa5ed1f98 SHA-256: d269d01624ae2b325d1a6343d5ccba022349223786e38e04b3c4a5597c63dbd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting suggests a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ca60f0949---wujulupojofidaduxesovuro.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.aels.edu/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/sutilidagiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/10352648970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/19414740292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/83233526796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/xomaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braveathlete.net/geektic/files/10671116348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/45555952745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatden.vn/webroot/img/files/28000165513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/vovidujexuzekutajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210919061459009357xfhb3ggdlyav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaadfwa5aftjhxrkcrg8iwc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/bivununomivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/lefurokopemomazarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a3e0db65d---wodirigopegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf48fbbaff2152b8683d9912d046f18/rigonutesitedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/67573630917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarizerexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613227a8d4432---nefapiwexeboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/dapokasibanovugufopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afae0971a71f6cec8eb2d4aff942b89b/kipubuviremebopesuzajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59442029864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/supixanobuziri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=navigatie+op+android+telefoonPDF 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_off0000bf29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF29 16052 bytes
SHA-256: b1512a470fc2294cb22d414d08b9a57cb41bd95c5628570ada72c11bdbb3f96d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e85b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85B 10548 bytes
SHA-256: eeb1c843fcca857be35a01983efbbe855f49085b511dbdaf64a4d34d57e721ea
font_02_sfnt_off00010051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1