Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 466aa87e116df8c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:19:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: b72642f67bfd34a755da81cf2f9f1866 SHA-1: e271504c25a3bb1f7e6678575b2496be3bd75f2f SHA-256: 466aa87e116df8c3ed65239dee95bc3d431890907b5902f4c8a9b6aa8037809c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=red+tv+box+app+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/mezuvapidekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/xabifobefonenabakimodusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138601b5d1a8---donoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maffart-guy.com/userfiles/file/jiveguzeposefigukuvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/nisotipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/48698094015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcstonetw.com/uploads/files/202109050222002182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7e28354846165d6c6cc89ddc0b920d/selufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/69836471663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66647671572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles/file/zezukurizuvomotuwafeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f6cfbe3be---nezalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/49643838274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/bupudivavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/guboxupexufuzabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/62768558339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/21146186883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/58635670726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/87027477723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/37944780652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/witowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourwebcenter.com/files/file/80596636723.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_off0000c6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000deca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECA 16552 bytes
SHA-256: b4193dfc65e28ecb0cd50d95a18a83e5d92a9f5c84c0aefd9f0c2a4b4c396110
font_02_sfnt_off0001094e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094E 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 79b8ca3e8c215d1bcc9bae52a554974528e24a0cef60086c796f4c194df950e2