Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f269b58093bb7112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-05 13:03:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a4b77e2c4d4e67d18ad728fafcbf0d85 SHA-1: d7428fbdee38487c1d6bf1cf3cefdbc4381f0d0e SHA-256: f269b58093bb7112d114a7e32c0d8591420611e8b49b47f52110f04697bc0f54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the high heuristic scores suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/mufexukolesox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/82464796901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/nejafixibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6c040db8c---80529329303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jst6c1usnbd84ndrgepp624ph0/18763118813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210615164511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a41751a4476b1eca6e5e657e00e92e3/nuginoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/63402868312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58eb3030ee42455f45d038478f32e589/38095587747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/nefiralesivodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8glp5iobnu4t0874kdia5i8g88/felotanujevutewubewonufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b382a95cb---sajisokofizujapuregajufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/gonusabapunubexawije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c888e4201c33f3807892f6d81389924e/jugojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/sudibadopokitunaxudexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/95769467665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609193a459a36---64374396126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/upload/files/pemagukupuporeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0339787e4b78e3af07a352c852a2ffc7/27645420843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086639711279---zeveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/52048110272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/dopilogafofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/defojogafijetefakifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=wireless+home+security+alarm+system+diy+kitPDF 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_off0000f538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF538 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 201c9e0c81e17a99455895e365389bf72306e49ae06f415c7538a7079cb1ff47
font_01_sfnt_off000121b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C7 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 19465d344bd734937833a8ed4f825401327afe11bc76ace4dd2fb8a96f1b04c4