Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 463af79dc64908ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 12:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e0945deb2b86335b1798ae9e51041319 SHA-1: 3e58df6346a2c1cacbf5ccac71b19693efce32c5 SHA-256: 463af79dc64908ef240545b6fc8ca32a2fdeaa5d2d95ab0e0f55c81052570991
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/vavafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stpm-sa.com/userfiles/file/zekagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/natuvamufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsilver.kr/files/fckeditor/file/1273149225613586cca2866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmyhome.com/img/files/27200401876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiytedaibao.com/media/files/22518561836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/87090809297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9590ec29add28bb833d31207d76745bd/rafevugunezeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italy-ex.com/images/blog/file/nirejevevikanolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heorungminhphat.com/luutru/files/75010801289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/mekupiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/rukitasodufogelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4els.ru/uploads/images/files/jutidesusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/75906361365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulifujupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyn-ordi.at/myPix/file/fisevokikefaguzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/bipidokilurebufivila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dda8c4622---jasaxesagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upljopca1u1ticaa7oae6h35m7/muxutuligalijesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/niwozumadelijekumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=es+file+explorer+ipaPDF 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_off0000d3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBEF 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 6fefdcc24ef3b89158fbcd82d73466d7d3ccfdaab8b81b42318d038dca11d756
font_02_sfnt_off00011a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2B 10232 bytes
SHA-256: a2c92d77da7a0cf41e0c6ccdaec39868e95d3541fd8c89af7a0df3c48648ce2e