Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07946e0e6ea8407b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cb606b24a90f835e6787c964c0987087 SHA-1: 41351a5892ba2668834a8ad560fbb68e05952ae7 SHA-256: 07946e0e6ea8407bb5b7de5a13744097f648434b959cec5f0c1a2cb6b904f51a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt at tracking or SEO manipulation. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+mod+apk+wallhack PDF link annotation
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/97491974457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharks-cz.cz/images/file/lavikugibizosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/77004286772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/57974081617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210925_F2379EEE07C04844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210913234637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/72433600393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents/files/10311578140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/kuwewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profiklub.sanswiss.cz/files/file/dokuzalavalofemajalajavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobreaker.com/files/files/judala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cab2de366---37033998006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovowimikanodanatofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/gudifizezuweponitaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/69233423501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67818380793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e44a9d9c75---48737342623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/40895769069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/jujegosoretuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/40625047453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/59828399725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgyuanhong.com/v15/Upload/file/202197225134420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e72d050b7---fomewulidokerodokaranopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210925182709.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_off0000af94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF94 16444 bytes
SHA-256: b8c50ebb6aa4eba9754374f72d2768901cd78d78bddc6419af3e32c78dee146c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92B 10548 bytes
SHA-256: c800d82fda25cc4381b557fb8e0d5fc822855da19e16cf89bdba95874f1332bf
font_02_sfnt_off0000f10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1