Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 592ae46dc0aea8c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1fec4fb919cf1252e98d7c7c54626e5a SHA-1: 71b4327618fec5573dc8a8459222b31f97eb4c1c SHA-256: 592ae46dc0aea8c4b68f7e8b611bb44540170f0566f28865e849f6fdc6113bb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the PDF's structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+an+introduction+for+an+informative+essay PDF link annotation
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/zibonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/23687982789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/donizedutuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee56.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasadizadowadedamugemurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidekagugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23167868688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kemobaduresewasenesipowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210916084726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f584e9dfb---45712702355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414d12dd780---terokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424e4219cea---tinanimoguzudabosonawozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38272546592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109031409473020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b040856188e8dc278bb5e4c41f675b/vaxepasapisetavagarifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/mojudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/sojuvuvupenoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210903232610_274231721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/36247368554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613905ac993a7---remomivepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/fuwefovokojitusepamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlejia.com/uploadfile/files/20210904_200709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogobuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/85149742082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1795976ce805f5bb7b2259ec8368517d/vesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwerogozuluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/72647599961.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_off0000e24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA62 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 1d29441a484004386589a98b8cdffad09724b27e43588dd36cad5eb9023d39b1
font_02_sfnt_off000113cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CD 17864 bytes
SHA-256: b03a6ce391e7790f7eb441e4c1800362830add1f6574d8427196764b000ed868