Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0468feae5a04432e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ff1dc891b57c0a45522cdfd0d2ed8573 SHA-1: 500477d139cd39ed753306338a4587efb37ac156 SHA-256: 0468feae5a04432e924a6027fe824ac230c477a8a7307123f6b08e1f2636e276
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/jixiwevokoliwadowatatono.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/mutisanofutoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bladensburg.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/49682382247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/tupisivuroserotuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xylemleads.com/userfiles/file/borupakipakodolixezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/gaxevamixoruwanokisoxete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/jozaduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8379ee458---46399231339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/positugemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d84da34e596856933c94b01a8eeac9/dosolusupexodevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boissee.fr/userfiles/file/mekibowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/81204603921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamansurkurhuseyin.com/uni/yuklemeler/file/70377727648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se8mdl04t2g1c5s38m154a0fin/vusinarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ginefexisobexowapuxuloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopherscopes.com/userfiles/file/lafogikudarutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/65193274233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146e57dbdd44---36239157799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esen.life/userfiles/file/rotitagutelinubega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89070917701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/30786195637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1279455043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=games+that+you+can+play+with+a+controller+on+mobilePDF 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_off0000afd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD2 11120 bytes
SHA-256: b941c60c47a6a0614c9bd5ce79bbb1f7126c5cce1afb428f3c3e6c5a36d40842
font_01_sfnt_off0000c978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC978 14404 bytes
SHA-256: 1221c767d6f0704524cb20fbbd479944792cc5681f70c196fc70d9a4228ae481
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1