Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a46c8af7f8175f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:55:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dfd1ffa1050014d908266f1ad57a6dac SHA-1: eb78a5046b04be96141b55bb987d51ceb16fc359 SHA-256: 0a46c8af7f8175f4f97db83558844b9a4b8464a30146d347119e6b32db2da708
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and others forming a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attack pattern commonly associated with spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+control+from+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/mipugovoxitikoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.com/upload/files/7219625894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/10346645250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/18536383651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/1718336784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/46675846624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/82770793706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/sagife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/27272461165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/zojelulikopulasusebuwerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/53806516436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/32305105140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140794e5cc71---43190726559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f0af40a2b---mefofowakigulepurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otoform.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fadodigasaxogeximexuniruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69139671675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/59952459741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38356587688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/81358106000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo2r91ap9kq9o13g048g7tge1n/nitabuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewidor-gmbh.de/uploads/files/kotekugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219ff57ed40206816de8a1b48a1454a4/86556460729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/1540068246.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_off0000b051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC868 10444 bytes
SHA-256: f6064827b492e895a20d23427686140a7a96c9729f6059f2d15035a49ac53978
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCC 17156 bytes
SHA-256: ef040beeb40e89e765239df892dc319d30ec2fbe9345346d8264d6ec667462e8