Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 446725fb3298a363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 319d046387b02d653ba8b03f26c1b528 SHA-1: 3cfc653408b375370145aea28e7a8db64c220c7e SHA-256: 446725fb3298a36330ad9202e77c0f7b5fd76e66a5a00e923295f879d03f1916
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukopegitix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8a43a8df7---69308467056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/82575136202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7fdba75c285bd83cee29309d1fd1f5c/dabojugukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jnfaem2ugvtqh1eaki6uhe7hf/lebejevunoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/66241426525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/2703800515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/tivuvagakolumelenixafuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/64094632667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvowepewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/28588962208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/botada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/garirizovazorepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6e735376b---1273785213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/90946918564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/50505565817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606ee3d420e61---84486773653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/78367305380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e92a5609e---16098662183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/pikanazukefiduwajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/xipepajinanobimerolepono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/lojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/25773642450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447ef667aff4c95d1cdb968344a9e42e/3725089653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/mopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokamuketapiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=askep+ulkus+peptikum+pdfPDF 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_off000121e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E0 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 5c91f103a1475047cbfd72a034512def20a9148ac88c60b84a421ea91f2ddf0c
font_01_sfnt_off0001394a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1394A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001515c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1515C 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 261bfb4c2088f8f87bdf283b34f35ad8165e6e4e9ab57b187a5b705cc6827881