Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f69e24b5d3755af5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-23 12:25:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7e5d47a03eeea5e74b4f4913896c2038 SHA-1: 6bd5087089fbb4a43893f1d95e111e01f1a91b9e SHA-256: f69e24b5d3755af50c3ebd87831190efdbd64dd82246decadf1fedf9e5c600e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links and the nature of the hosting suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/74515101774.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f0170bf9f---73934339348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/dixuvagumidanepigafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e38eaee97a42f6b0da2a875f029e413/46710093066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccc642f146---50828509563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc284b26e91---muxolosupokoxepewofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/medenawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazososuredileke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/vufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861623e4158---menelosetidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f33c74391aa7510975150d9087e23f74/riwariseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719831eb201---34698831579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35410442697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210818024657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6997676b4e---wonuwulivolitaladarozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolky.info/foto/images/file/82850186557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/kekizegiwufevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/89266825075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111b0738c739---sikizanituvefiwajiwunavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/95069586368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/zugenabafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edva9njm648dkiod8pjanbsa8v/88089652915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raykingcarroll66.com/clients/2/29/292092747e06e0ab09130fa737b110c0/File/18549190453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/giwonepumawida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=paraphrasing+exercises+for+college+students+pdfPDF 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_off0000f2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC0 11104 bytes
SHA-256: fe45cd1416a22d6a1b247e68810fa0ac75c11ab3d6ed059d982eb49410e6802d
font_02_sfnt_off0001245b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245B 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 416283770b80cd47be0454eb1c3c1fc4955d8f60620f5c03f16e915c0c80bb82