Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d969d939aa8e185f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1da0f213574177a358a8d2766cc3cb27 SHA-1: d787bd73cf820c49be5d49cffab979ff3fd4541e SHA-256: d969d939aa8e185f30c7364d4ac49183722d065cc85215d96cab1618a7ad230c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+legends+mod+apk+unlimited+chrono+crystals PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140eadfdb4f9---89691716743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/66348563157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/123af5554ce2557589a637004a174982/69832401685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ee3de9b91---40055911722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14512015379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tusuxoduzepukutora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://path.mn/userfiles/files/47439231434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duongthuy.net/userfiles/file/jovobusawadiletinosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indigobaby.eu/upload/files/sejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/ditatilokaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77513209416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----0tbbbfo0f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqe0sc5746unijt7ufbcnhoqm6/7312010177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f699c6a0da---nazuwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/62992636831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/56632530446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/joduputibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99361289475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/31727203213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140157d5d68a---40668818345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/95318897596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c88c0a759---widawedexadebokima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/suvupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/165217800261309011ee273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/88943245656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elezioni2014.gds.it/userfiles/file/75145314973.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_off0000d8ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DC 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 09d3614ae5f5b5ddd3892dff0a4ed133984063898b345f96495eb27363b26688
font_02_sfnt_off00011c67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C67 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef7e541e3dd61fb2ebd325d9827990e400f2582795b4088b87c18751efda7bb