Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 137e46412805fa40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 17:03:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 34092e4e1f6b2f057623f4ef7331d33d SHA-1: af09a68f447cc80f7cfcc01414fcfd5039fe81d5 SHA-256: 137e46412805fa40b370786ac90f9b326bdd2c2ed2a8e5570e4b09e6e20a27ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=9.s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+matematik+denklem+ve+e%C5%9Fitsizlikler+test+%C3%A7%C3%B6z%C3%BCml%C3%BC PDF link annotation
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779f6297ef3---27331977590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/64421711996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kdt00b3flniird93rj6cov0ai/bagelatisajuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgsh222m32tug21h9rd9qgcrk7/xumatesekefanelito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/17508613115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/62210248730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e05f44ce182---80920215006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03242c2d3d---nakomudenesedatikobudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/88634387101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9af2e4cbb317aff11b218ea038d3e8b5/detabiwonami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e3cb4f6b66dd78e1246d425599d4e1/daboliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70779786935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/95010977619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhs1959reunion.com/clients/871764/File/xuveratatodogok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/sumijotilovaximesatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210520141701_809359529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab21fb631c3---96673386843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/37554841792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62e57c4884---tasitabujatomeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doranozazepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28592d9928---bezelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0537da6412---95238834407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d96b7d61b4b87abe255e28d057f0d6/dasuxibuxetisa.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_off0000da4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4F 11640 bytes
SHA-256: eb4418949688793b68209b47181c108c2baac45b0564d02cd340004bcc63a46e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F8 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 9382fcfedbcba615251342c0d3a4bddadc6ea9fcbbd5e694ba7ac1a00c8ec135
font_02_sfnt_off00012061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12061 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1