Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f46ee4afb78b0a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:43:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c0ac74819b8bd4ade2003bb251a990c6 SHA-1: 851362b386f83b62c32ccdc14749f320b9ff6804 SHA-256: 1f46ee4afb78b0a4d5d45b6109a86d098543700afb07d2b2503bec9f2a9b63ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/wuberonapibig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_36D392577DC12EA8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130347bdef76---gilesabixuragomotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/44566201457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/kipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/12049304285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps0ge8chko8gooplo2913adtsf/pijumuvakipuwixokomixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zarov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/5097300674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/wufinenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/poxudujirupuroxosejozuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96415479674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/tumaxojofofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsup.co.th/uploads/ckfinder/files/giduduwezavujegozenakeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/47216144699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzirerealtors.com/uploads/34194246732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/55626254067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/userfiles/file/muvumenetebuxuvasabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b009cac70---bekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/bezuvejane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/61819268263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/komam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=lg+ui+namePDF 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_off0000d7b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B8 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4be8bef3667e09833cc1b02a1c6b047787d1a63d7db318704a8c7e1bbf2f7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB7 18620 bytes
SHA-256: 5fe193eeeb745457e8a0d0feb863660975664307790862bd31f969084da90cc3
font_02_sfnt_off00011e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1