Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2046da18f4953d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e80c15efef17c59edfb2ec6fb7ecc686 SHA-1: 85f63d3e5ad584da31e56d40489e337c89d9d8c1 SHA-256: 2046da18f4953d76bae93457c5ab526b923bf591a373c303066fa83de305faa0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=permutation+and+combination+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100b0407ccae---wulilunudeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/sudukelewizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/85427094720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/89622811048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/vabumipuxazudiximanajize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9083451e3199cb5883582b9650d7aa3a/volininusilurogeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/gafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/72311908784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a28bf0b630e01def37b3c58156191130/28306746416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/81146512514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0udkpjda5seqjcbi44pkcsjis1/17068556327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/petokelelenusugokinepozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/56337855773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/63368986165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/15915211922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9deaa169406941755e51a006769e9b6f/jezefanasufukixogepowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6df246555---59263011038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7141071b3de109c9b0e10432aef5dd/77197746793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/titovowuremaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/badujewaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--xhq021fvrwdth.com/d/files/76741995941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/zoxejekutixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/50573699449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/75056099237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n47jedp82jn5cs97961ie7q409/23539470789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ebc12e4db---32967142509.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_off0000c69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC69E 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 95e1fea4794015ad21d67162406841be25ab3085bc04f5bc92cbbc8914525a85
font_01_sfnt_off0000f136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF136 11124 bytes
SHA-256: bd35a4e0a30f7b8c52c6cda59f2ba8a1f70b9733d16d838e30c25c46ffbddcbf
font_02_sfnt_off00010b11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1