Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc69b1713cc280df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 05:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a429dabd4b8c3c7483fe7df0b53cfba0 SHA-1: 79c8d4421d52edb61fc29cd69c5e82653f196ca3 SHA-256: fc69b1713cc280df99b313093effb1bfffe0c6e5d74ddcf9f92c4b9554bd9a15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+pe+ti%E1%BA%BFng+vi%E1%BB%87t+mi%E1%BB%85n+ph%C3%AD PDF link annotation
    • http://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/lumoxerupebeduwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexehochiminh.com/userfiles/file/94911348153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/7175823879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4c6ab96ba---63477195440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b788e670df98ec12cc7ea085ad10bf8c/43990078576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/46050343749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/21328064326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/61140607753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aefc13a24705630df73ed8d3f4a96177/rebomeloxetize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/dadumotiwuridudaxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnd8766t66bssgd48gdvk4eb2m/nebitodarudobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/kalixulupozipomakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728defe373f---pefofatelusofokomexejeruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e54d8e876---59893718911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/jubebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/lebonumujomozejabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111aa068c196---92086195641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780d8d7b5c4---sibojavimapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115f289cf2c2---jipoziguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/mobiwagavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur7cu45pm9k4mjnsi5pel9dgnd/guvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/52316524899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/navenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/84314422498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/66225022405.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09D 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 91c0a93ae99c5e0ec3b6b97e199e6456bd232e2c6eda11a69f8be37b9714f8f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3B 32388 bytes
SHA-256: ddfc796fcf8f867dc0146c6f20a2e6452cf141a2ae21b7ebe60a0c7118a0817b
font_02_sfnt_off000139a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1