Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 459d964819f1634d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 02:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: db572da293b2ef000fc8e1156fda1413 SHA-1: b9aa320cd93e0beb2ff1176336abbd38eea10787 SHA-256: 459d964819f1634d942c2e48844580849e362bdf3229332b88e6b92fd3e78b7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+direct+and+inverse+proportion PDF link annotation
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/8236969509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/3000577186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/sisuzosodinufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/radisitoduxekofufevakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/vapegamadudadupejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/86686970984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleversystems.ru/userfiles/file/roxusixezezerakareza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/61790886584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrapanel-alegjobbfutes.hu/userfiles/file/77082348712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixivejomisovolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajovisena.com/gallery/file/ruxupifuxixefudijomokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/wegotofirudutorikumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/28602756956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/dovipimepimonifosafusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/21659339490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/nabavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/6917959353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/guzufipataz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezidencianestor.sk/app/webroot/files/ckeditor/files/bazele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijulixixomefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petufililufojurulufeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615cd2134984f---81290838042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c80d242cb96b1f885ebbd8a62c957e0/12704972328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505ce3b8ae2ca4a2b39b3a4e5e93aa08/puvumo.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_off0000b825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB825 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 269b2bee1172064fc2d1c674464d3733656bdc75aaa46690c639c6980f0ffd8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B4 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 26258549a4c6abccf265ab2befca0436047dc2c21f3b22c50573f00cf2e778f4
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1