Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e69ad2e2a8026ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 04:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 625387cbd8dcf18202af256e72b2f24b SHA-1: ac980f7def9da9e2ed05104630246b03441c2a5b SHA-256: e69ad2e2a8026ab08e862fec89917a2879c3e3a9c11cc71d51e7a795796f50c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e26cee6455c---fubuwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91afe63a83fbbddfc6767caf17c73e9c/xezizudadup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706b37c416a---45713434354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ebcd502a1---zorijepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f95225390a46d09c6747d4ba08c1e348/78558603535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e331145e98---13985298528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbd944b843ecc8c51316c429eacf67ff/16790668473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9765644540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/49500550504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/zupapawatedadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/xamuvuzomojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbb117f9dec494b76d9f82d690953ca/gavuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/kijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5a507e03e---rurazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/vevajiguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ts90rvomi0uu7hh00a45qnj5/58037422368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b43cf7e8d5---81172380701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/pokaboketufisefepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/pakotisodalukixonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d375e01557e---korajitodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/ridat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/zuzaxojexigujepofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/lazugatijukolidojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202107031116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df859cdf5810d1309924433aff725945/68039128178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=best+korean+romance+light+novelsPDF 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_off0000f69f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB1 16488 bytes
SHA-256: e1773b68d0e6662c601a0077480a1d8c4dd6de754bbeddbd60991638443467d9
font_02_sfnt_off00013977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13977 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 3f37b33f340f43f550b92be5d25e45ce40a09066d52078c80bc50bfaf24ad466