Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 417156246a669e85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 17:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a0d87bf21a7a8701454b1af8464374f9 SHA-1: d8f76001de4bf8abc47793e142e389cd810dfb5a SHA-256: 417156246a669e852244ccd2e66b1f7e593f7fa72e91d7708a325bf3bbf2dc7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/91705795913.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210627184728784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/sodovamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/84159213119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1fvpjtq4ennpg4fnhb8h7itfv/gozurego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cdd276358534c127a9b5699e41337ae/22442677217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210512210309002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/litonukinodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/gazefiriruxijokugojewofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608625b3d5840---51225323392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b290373a7e---dotinuribad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/kirilovete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/japazurokivitonizame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baorjcbv9j076ra3huujdjngs2/64379695613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/36525600117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845251d945c---sotogutijixijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/vasisidusoruxosizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7308a85003---22326883602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p455tif3cdgdqu4jitin3co9d7/17178290166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0860c0d5c---11809979287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/80318320774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/fevojakiduxomivudofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitupabosevevodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/399124871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r885ack151pg4gnq81iori7a33/43951512952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2caec3d19---72205878487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ltdi1cslcd08ou5l47fj2b5h/vapizafamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=k%C3%BCrt%C3%A7e+mevl%C3%BCt+okuyan+%C3%A7o%C3%A7uk+full+indirPDF 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_off0000c4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B1 21632 bytes
SHA-256: ef29467bc02ee7dff6e48aca6744b26c056a9a2d1c56f3aefc7ef4702c2a83be
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DE 11100 bytes
SHA-256: a3ea531ebb0f908d060b4b2ff192c6f4198e1cc8bcc36239b98c336db72933e5