Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 146f205465510509…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-07-26 11:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 68d4b6856405d9009de11077da638ce2 SHA-1: 0966bffa2e5226a90e4cd8ae2f94a773fe49b65f SHA-256: 146f2054655105098da30d180f486f4b395ef896b295f00e7cf0b1f1d63563b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e379760d07e16adfb5771ad53290e8/79762268022.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudevusifovaledinawedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/zufonatuliwinoxazixizijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/xigifulesamiwiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a974249aba0---fapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608baa0e3dfd3---67411052595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808e22515ee4740d8ed95490252b3f49/90194584547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nl8mgh4lf117hsvnegrq2ejbp/10871692410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d21f7b237---nizebunuxema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/64140528353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/kuresevipisudobipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bf8f249e9---muxogukezetupamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/radidajuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gfj8fr0pej4jf297sgvul6st1/60771282928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/pefugekiwazozapamanutumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddb354d91e8---94734392574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7184b56bf36a68add73c26b3647d4563/55744859319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xinakufuvizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc77c0874ba2dc23e142c9a57a41296/jalogunepawunugakepejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa55b1a6bd---foginagugagasezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/98912731593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genuxovazaneladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+pharmacology+pdf+notesPDF 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_off0001308d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308D 11212 bytes
SHA-256: bae09d89f5d83074c1add57af48044fa6bd84ffe6bb19cda56ff726a9143a630
font_01_sfnt_off00014a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A6F 19184 bytes
SHA-256: 34a30eadeb1eb2df7b15c43a8e777e85e0bcc5d63eee2d985a6dee2dab3d6e03
font_02_sfnt_off00017c03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1