Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 454449101cea8762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f6ee9d1278a6001b0c1f2d2c89b2af06 SHA-1: 5fa424e10d1d8673eb44df9f7f280a7b5c302a3d SHA-256: 454449101cea8762aacf30c6a3aa7b3bea754d78d81ba6b42ab4ba0be83019b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest 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 0.9860

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=search+engine+optimization+brisbane PDF link annotation
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badotanalosotekeguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/zovifewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021091020064573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/97645571906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venukaxipujulapinafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303308e5362---59638241261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/pinogomugelalebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/86654742284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/69107633476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/53127502238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/sonabejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22a1acc7cb87a009fae51df9eb83234/47548746003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/95442364586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/vojupumevosopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40136673129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parmalab.it/userfiles/files/8478187743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/68322535719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/luwalilizozelilarivukomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/24137753936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613343caf2cca---fovuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectagsafety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womazubadubuterasesonerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrdreamteam.com/files/files/file/InfoProduct/file/mudusiterepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/60146022064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/pavufoguwanoteker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/gogozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/51527747011.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_off0000e17a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17A 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 99a27055a76b8035f2b852f7311a7e054ab5315ac109e83262efc058fb1abdd8
font_01_sfnt_off00010e3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12656 11052 bytes
SHA-256: e5e499b151f62d4d97412454b22c65a0bc70f1eedaccf149537462efe29299d9