Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4617391075b31f57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 16:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 82c69dccfe4216334c0f7468cda87548 SHA-1: 5c6264a37618e37b800b7a75942ce852f9e07c40 SHA-256: 4617391075b31f570658244c0d37fe5b48315240f4bedabb04a37d5914d8ec64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to exploit users by redirecting them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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=re2+appheaven+mobile PDF link annotation
    • http://poptheme.cn/uploadfile/files/20210922_195218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1973311aa---kimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/44263634793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21337789240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/33921854133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/12855992121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613433cbe894d---vukalasixogozoboruzupixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fe12413cbd---54091568559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/gonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/69030227682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/61305393764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/62146445351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyros-club.de/userfiles/file/20152800181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/31211888489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cataga.de/beta/files/file/bafizexazelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/kosaxirilarolesetuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/fupokegixepanevelegupirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210923031437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/sizipekunexogelodumuzove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/40759092900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthresearchinstitute.net/userfiles/file/zegomogigumekope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilsahost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/6191555038.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_off0000aef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEF3 14600 bytes
SHA-256: 5b2eb3d3017cec12d648b2508410bfcc942b6a32a9074fee9fca926dd083c9e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9C 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 32f7290e80b5c95f218a820933e2c6a3c6ba4803152628a92cbb7e3b314cf707