Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f696ccc29099eea7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-08-03 12:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c59cc06761b2ce0ac83f7329315cccd6 SHA-1: fd2ecf0319b7e5dd3cf7907e215d97b4734a5c5e SHA-256: f696ccc29099eea79298474e765da24ad1d7ebbd974209a0f0ff1011f45b0949
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites for potential credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9637

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=wwe+2k+android+mod+unlocked PDF link annotation
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db86b0863e5---23133426256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/merujenidewujibojadojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c329b16565f---wejarewinivibamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fcb68b9d---40701757947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d29e4da8ad---jikozewivovipamaletigobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cab0588bac---lovugobimexaxoruso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/97685857656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5b7e2d34d75dfa860ce84c2fc95eaa5/12196759942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/lagosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/58006185579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/gifakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/69624620992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/36586635720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ab6c3bd3dc29ae5f21df0d4e1fdae0/girebutatijutuwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/madivovoxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099838deb455---79128355400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca54a56a78d2a14cfb9c7bb2c4c7fe8c/93584114882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/pilefugabujafubetetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxomixufeguxagezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urotunisia.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/34074951526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///56988112996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607138b0e35c7---xoxijixukabezejafolimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/ditel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfbde9abf62---27696582138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/5625902557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/dumobup.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF3 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_01_sfnt_off000104fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FA 19200 bytes
SHA-256: 6dac5bb9cef1da26df4bb523cbaf49b13f67fcc42e6805272ebc89217fc3ce4d
font_02_sfnt_off000135f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014e0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E0F 10656 bytes
SHA-256: f99f9445e4a02ee24887af986e454ac74c01d6ae03f4bd65c296d935fd29c29c
font_04_sfnt_off00016678.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16678 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13