Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a9bb46af23215bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6d5606f8b5533a72b5b560fbe32ceb4a SHA-1: f78781e5b3f77f4de72c8116c3ac247a94950f2e SHA-256: 1a9bb46af23215bd84e21c608e8d113f3d62061e17cca731b603c1026b33dcc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of external URI indicators and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+video+song+download+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcl99nge0dvb7j6riogru6mtsd/86529696844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b33e9c96ae---xupotinotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smingames.com/ckfinder/files/99896129491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/92918950494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufokibaviwifavapaxovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/59458882098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/24373032013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/75271278917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109071106256453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/jipuxexifuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/rijiwarerafutujulekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///66328706813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/46752133186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae05939e1561abb0ab32176631be5b04/lewisoveparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofeluwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614007b8679d8---85718957883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415504403d0---66830791425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/9807622082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meberewoxoxozuratan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/novejozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/contentimages/file/34826350743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads/files/202109061801499991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/jitazewapokebusovugated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141eb8bc80e1---wejulosemefevodavevuli.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_off0000bc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC10 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 125ca2176ab7b8b8a3cda9bce9eae55c7994947ec8b355fadec5923623641e50
font_01_sfnt_off0000e72e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF45 10704 bytes
SHA-256: c0f6fbfd61e93ef236d452fe1cd32bce15a926dc8448e3e11a98b1734190e4d2