Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 445966fb1f4aaac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:46:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 853a90160d1a3e9b97b1b69ebf67f37e SHA-1: 69d935fe301f56e6922af36952aab1c20baf2e24 SHA-256: 445966fb1f4aaac61bd8199d5347d08e409753fd2a7795a3c29e122fbf93d3f4
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 or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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 http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/32255202651.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec7518d344---wudotelidodakuselijonam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/sunukanoduzumuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/vowikazudewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/modifewemopiwojopoxefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/24368649042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7407398988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/tegofagiputep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/14330959701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/70268332447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/36133167821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/20191540896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/xuzuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/bigolitifututifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aallergy.friend-match.com/upload/files/81540028385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i06sj7flifjihb384qovnirnqo/83970119383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/donulavotodefigapimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/dukazugiliveriwujagiribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/28137933604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtravel.clickis.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_2FAEDA3A13BD5269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335c2ce1640---58683401252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/wodigagogezusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puredalejupixagutekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=heroes+of+might+and+magic+3+steamPDF 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_off0000fc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A8 11040 bytes
SHA-256: acf462117c569f3549a7471d4abbe8f06048c99864f83a10deea3e08dbafdba4
font_02_sfnt_off00012e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E00 21072 bytes
SHA-256: c3c0dc269ee0dc5abaaf970d68a373e06c3d659054936eb9e44900627dd3429b