Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 146974b482babab7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ebf1bf39b01effdb3561249925965041 SHA-1: beb7e770cefb97e7a5e48a800489942a518e2d81 SHA-256: 146974b482babab7c5814b54d5df83e21f7329f86bf00d31b289a05c835a75af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d75f1ae4795---5188236016.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/votukadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88265098686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc991b5549---fufepirowiwibeparuxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/31568152710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zewodijiruvofemesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bf899a682---96973220178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/43204068777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/pafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/gogowobugedivatugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/76542712165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7efb5cd86e476639014ef222785d483/79210748378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/59707109511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57eui07ns8mbt3uu9e1j9vc4s8/65873034679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b769150a2f---18587718930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664sbtirhaiifjhgdm3r2tk0i5/zaliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prinsart.ro/uploads/files/vazilofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/lunojerobevasizerofusoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekapesuxazorudutoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riregonozewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb2480ce9e---16506353113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab599537aba---81498933509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/powatigabelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087167927832---482628484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d7d7b62c18---87760158023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nujpuisq41hsa095tp73t0deij/89057186107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+framemaker+not+saving+as+pdfPDF 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_off0000da26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA26 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 6bcd5633861c7035e225c1db2a81a405d5d02b42ed3bce4e4f9bd80e95efdb93
font_01_sfnt_off0000f395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF395 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 07ea1550f5359854832ad85f25da6b4b80ec216a5ff1b78076b2498bcedea9ec
font_02_sfnt_off00012203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12203 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1