Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b246f76ccfd7649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:11:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 18d7685d8f6e5513507e5441482f0ffa SHA-1: d543914b57627c8f0d6c647877daf62d7326cb15 SHA-256: 5b246f76ccfd76499f1b01b7e1d72a60aee16f69522f3d76da75013bd9db45a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, which are designed to distribute malware or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+marshmallow+wallpaper PDF link annotation
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/21248022503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodbridgeabw.com/uploads/files/56770338172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/togiruzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/fomepejamugigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinimoti.com/assets/userfiles/file/37550435242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/66863725890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctcitsupport.com/media/files/konefoxafewevijozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/84841788989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a86144db07---vonikitinixazarerafizeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yieldpharm.com/upload/files/sasomesikoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ishvani.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godirebiniroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/26969712635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409fc2678fa---51451626932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villahetzwartepaard.nl/survey/userfiles/files/53204058855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48073b3a9b1966296d54bc83377ea8d7/xufebiwijudupopeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantiffin4me.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/26028787800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c8a63a2fb---49012413956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/85672300014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/UserFiles/file/wenimupaxojalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/batefidetarope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/65820509472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrigantina.com/025-CEB/images-editor/file/4514033701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badofitidigetifedutulaxor.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_off0000b946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB946 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15D 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 6c53a461b4dfda9c27beff511e86ee3e0babb6b38cc2582925b5bf193ea4cb5e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE973 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 645037d6d652f3dd6c9f457241c28edb9ce90f0bfe25bc906cc9dbbf1fe73813

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