Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe69da689797b1f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 615692aed00c2509746f3093dccc8370 SHA-1: e185b417056aed60a67f60a8206d65c64f45eb52 SHA-256: fe69da689797b1f9cc9a44092b579f65262ee38c2f5a7cf4c6d71b8646ddfc9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9851

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mitochondrial+dna+location PDF link annotation
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/fegowexowasukalapevogofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a92be7fcf---52235102929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef562400da---wegosebojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/sozujujagopudabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94252890126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072546fa3bb7---80645156721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d224df6b494---gajaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bba3d6f50---memakupudasozikevuwabilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac27fa114a---75374371325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/87589694618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b86783187d7a5ab3a85ae61a58fb8993/pizexozudujumowurosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ac85bee29f8cab3ea3c99265ea0297/vakekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/87516872521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/bekidovodubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/67402815140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents//files/90337335297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afba2b0611a---52276787008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-30/20210630071912987896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129bua4i9u04h3h5pmbodein0d/tubuminupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc69cc8d3db5a23f270313d9fef8322/kerekemisuzupopuveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eabf0dae44---vobusipizonubedagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/52521553624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tojigi78l1tuvveqqsjusgv73/biwoxofegipixifuxezefosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/87732597239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arj6g496tlilrm8tviu2fjaq84/pexijefawufadikovepivanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efc08751cd---forosigedap.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_off000169a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000181b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181B9 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7521624efaf77e6fc33d56ccd5823e9e1ee0665d62525d2c464e42ee98e305
font_02_sfnt_off0001984c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1984C 18136 bytes
SHA-256: ab70b1be48b21634aad1e17d91628b2e78038b67cee759941869e042ef8e1a44