Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 462c2ada6db8ff17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0b8ae58280fe0f85418a30d40850a009 SHA-1: 1b18c7d6259659a7e5d7bb9282b9369714278b8b SHA-256: 462c2ada6db8ff179e9be8b858c65bb5f24fd3608ab62ba9a6eac83b73e8b1c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm is a common tactic for directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://birudongker.com/contents//files/niluk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b84f0457d5---tivuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://directartdeal.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/80308283126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6584413420---9445998148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e26cc05ad3351c187c4c824ad01158/wikazapuxodudulofedaferit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210627234526_1260853162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ed0fc6c12---detokatosuleposudoponev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/gonaremefovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/dokejulomopigokubajufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b29961a0d---47919446666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5587300733---79416349306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/maridajefomuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csavarkompresszor.hu/userfiles/file/ziwazibejegerujamelibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094482578a5b---tugafawajojelamapege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/47674206475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6d2f56c11f0337040de626b97e31a0/kulavifojatujowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/datago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0b529b62c---supifulibufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=phrasal+verbs+intermediate+exercises+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_off0000f549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF549 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 9bcc848696aaabd425279ab8a1bd753b4b82325797fb7367231033bb495a93e3
font_01_sfnt_off000122f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F1 11076 bytes
SHA-256: f4be7abe96b8dd339cd3a632fd203c44400cebd4843b473477cd207a8c486090
font_02_sfnt_off00013c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1