Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 109a466bb45c0822…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:51:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 01f5d03b0ddcbacc7dbd8ac6fef81a7f SHA-1: b6ea95e91117a826debd0d1ce6d4e915a114b407 SHA-256: 109a466bb45c0822582ad74abe235790f6d642444c4b713e5a518fe889be0699
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of a link farm and compromised hosting points to an attack pattern designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83prn9hm19eavn7ilesppl20j0/nanizoxekiduxuke.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/pakenugigege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/73009636474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa1517d2b4917bfca63127886e036596/57531994589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bi9lmjgcvhs9oo4m9u2c1oov6/23730791450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eos5mi2pp4r36kq9f5mdi424pd/pokejibolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf56e65a4c8c53bed3e9685f5dc2a07/dulusepirujavukotefiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45922530714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/wufenajovepoladibunubupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb985200a0---7547674866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shspp0viud99mnvo3eq3flrvje/89999537978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7f9bacf1279a0e2b6773eac190c7d3/88255441680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd6228e956---11895190262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b36e6dcc48c---zedizimodobedaxevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607b7628f299a---rafemeguludax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/nodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa162c41d7594fe9d4a78a72d9f1d07/66337746224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15cdafcaf8f347f840506d14872ec803/63190776313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/zamepavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/41972267501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f566416ec977312ecdafefa0a5087e/46209861868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifarovagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39540543ba---zejapebufagokerelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=who+killed+yew+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001428b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428B 19528 bytes
SHA-256: fb1efc698b2841dabcce78e5cb253b861b66ff3b117a414da69602d2655f4ba8
font_01_sfnt_off0001749b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1749B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CB2 10532 bytes
SHA-256: d64ba11a6cc65f89a0dd345398b072e48fad6b053d94505e354bd1d01edfa50d
font_03_sfnt_off0001a4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A4A0 8044 bytes
SHA-256: 0929ebe06762286b032a0e39aad43a667614411225ffd55ca5b37593756bcf21