Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0464c9ec62401770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:59:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 449460172bc6cfe8c5ffb7a507a83cb4 SHA-1: f2d8d5c3f6c68c2349ce979e6cc6d913f16d42ab SHA-256: 0464c9ec62401770d332d5ab56d8b7d38f29d39fb6e4dbdd1ef49ebbdef7a1c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to domains identified as potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/xufuwedutilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/89562958630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents/files/88880403216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ce47e00ac---96194378314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/42947935578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnqu98bt4ehfabt9epmk1s85di/14639998296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/48542157306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/8431234960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/92877988348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/nawaduriwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/suvibaguxuvuxukigisiwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51daa512e7aae5203b014acd8cadb58b/kafevozugakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed01099d4419fda0ebad7be5adb8399/lirabetetiginenazuvafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/38812305692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/78466660372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298tdqnv2d76q0ejb22tcp6aa0/savev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c78531ecba7f0b0bdb8b8d84ea807f5/14217018991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/vugamurenuvirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b8f03733ba367d9f06a03696edeb39/duvidogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758175da147---13491249194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a519289a82a---35876673198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/79896228030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/70292827632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrdinstitutionspandher.org/sgrd/userfiles/file/2153001311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1624156547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d8ce02be8---6266567460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skylineidaho69.com/clients/c/c7/c7306e0a9cc1d421caefa9c307ca601f/File/10902623860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a9967e27---juvepulegevafevofufaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=diccionario+poqomam+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_off0000c7c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C3 10484 bytes
SHA-256: e13aaa5f3afff71f45816b5c06ef562266109eaa55661bb010f25b3cd952d5dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000df45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF45 18944 bytes
SHA-256: b82a1799d697bd3c8561c1d6f4cd41669251972034f3601b4614e598cadc5c03
font_02_sfnt_off00010fe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1