Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da69953c740006ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:21:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8290fa42e5304402e1de92652cc3dc93 SHA-1: d4d98af3affb2eacbc92c6864138c0138d3ff4cd SHA-256: da69953c740006ae06debd26215bba8730ba73f4a4f85dce4418879343306102
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to a site that then redirects them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=federal+government+meaning+in+english
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1olki1lvhe65b36d9k1lslpqt1/48391558326.pdf
    • http://originalavto.ru/userfiles/file/rofikofemidamerupemejo.pdf
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/nexexodusa.pdf
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelagusasolo.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/86005145232.pdf
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b1b98a53f6ed2f49aa09cdbf1705fa/639912149.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acdd688fecc7b998ce8d4af1cc27823/26907271145.pdf
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/purudojukawogazodu.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a3e2351220068d09d58e14f66ae717/resupavariremimarigij.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b862ec4d6ffbf6a9d61510eb5301ebd6/98100486948.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2f1d62975---50017638125.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/susuzo.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b09b207c52---18296410243.pdf
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gldnkvutsa7ffl1tcjq373vtb9/tulal.pdf
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/57848550741.pdf
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/xawov.pdf
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/71451239720.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/49151354112.pdf
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/pizevifupisugovubadipuza.pdf
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/gatibijuzusepoxide.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02d2a82d39---22574941543.pdf
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/fisasetofiduluz.pdf
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/28034499.pdf
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/dexarelamisigexedileri.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c042.bin
2d463231a7555bc7be3c54d75d9c71ffde7c1eafafb6097202025a7f13915775
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC042 10736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d884.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD884 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f091.bin
9c928bf144e3eec6b0e52ae2bba533670589b2228405e28e178bb89e049a64b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF091 1684 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000f889.bin
2cb7fd685145583f38ca6309559137d1dfddcb89e5db7ef0685e604dccb27f5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 22592 bytes