Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0146c7dd9e2d24d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dd3abddfc618e1aea85312bddb625c06 SHA-1: 1efb41e216a2e59c09dbb1804b81b552310158d8 SHA-256: 0146c7dd9e2d24d392bd5698de4d1a610d2e87be67c55d2e16d0a082a25a0f4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not explicitly detailed, is a common technique for initiating redirects or further malicious actions within PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+bribe+in+malayalam PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607598023b36a---sagijebebexisovoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4161538458e5d9e892e294bb7a5e82/96729815347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4d7a4386c---gifoxagariteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3512b906c---vabafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00037f2c9959bdc23dfa3da624abc574/daxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf0859b543---31804407576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/bigatusulilijotexewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/47891796890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9ecd3e72d---tidagijonigosujasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eui25o24see38tmqc3r6i7toto/wiwozabakufejuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d85be16dd3a1f88df15d2d4cf2cf0e5/37154532638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfe302c167---69159998247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4fb079adc9---wexovobowasotirilodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/23878928006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e901aa2fb---54919783506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712b510028f---97234529159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ed29397252253c231d965afae9bcaed/jezimisotugoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c2b2c49fe---rezumubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/xevubukuvowepozolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f579c3d5a9---newapuzojatovagisusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd28548168---93832715405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a736ebba3c9d2d04ea577a609f1c6c53/80958280426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8374975b7850005cbdb25f21959224fa/64514658331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/zikejiwebomaveperel.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_off000122ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AB 18480 bytes
SHA-256: e8562a22b6c28146cb938438e126cfc66cbfc96498b0ef328e3bd927f94ecf08
font_01_sfnt_off00015329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15329 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016b40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B40 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 0db96d3f1a15b1d1c82ad974d97cdca36121f36974d331144c20a864cf7b1f39