Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00146ea0d2f68248…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 11:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6137520ef14fe25a1a0b5279c73c6c22 SHA-1: 7b8ddd1693366d0b97d831b77ebb499dc695cdf2 SHA-256: 00146ea0d2f68248ad746ffd696f6e9647b29460b7ad057ff096a4633baa1f95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs likely lead to a second-stage payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=airdroid+web+download PDF link annotation
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/kozivanadedurapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fccd9ac0f2---16396937590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/49722535786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04bb3b4a131b64229e523f94dc1c0c2b/9379123669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_222108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/barufalimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f848b66ee0---12442336089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/sadipaguniwamatefanumanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zaluziemalina.cz/userfiles/file/92838617536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/moromujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/39184108444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/87487232634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benhgout.net/uploads/Files/file/gugagigunezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/lovidobudunewozimogipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uklearningnetwork.com/userfiles/file/73459392054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/98055017857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/pokofano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/84559135749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/dulexigepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/petewozunafisepevusuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109251058519868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_4853F3ACFA2DC287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/36251600952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/sotomebumobasonur.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_off0000b3fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FC 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 3e0be1959c8bd4d51d5aaff219af41186c49adbaaa7b1cea233f3803bd2164b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000cae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE0 19036 bytes
SHA-256: b52dfe8b213cdf7292932d1297c9f5e81a7446e4ac9676890b8bc6a5de99c9dd
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1