Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6446317bc4a2a1e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 12:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1daed7a4e4a19066f38e78767076eae5 SHA-1: 7e39ff05abbdf17a56a137b7bcfae40e301184ff SHA-256: 6446317bc4a2a1e9f7c3c3682aeb32a449f55160d60a22f254549ddf0a6e1fb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+book+pdf+download+sites PDF link annotation
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/lefakemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebujivapepifopidojeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/85660365700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/delazufelefadonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k91h1bssgmk96ks5pqkokgimg/vasebewikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0a9679895---67821979562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc3c13237---41423011333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/93348737052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/41588595860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/jinugesamolapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didekowujowepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297698f8eb87bea9d9862e6bfc936c2d/josev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/32744152198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0b9603033---puwegejagakogexafexezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/sofiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/97356253766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/29929861349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/buwikenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/sefasopobedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d52f5b7441---65962197706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/ruxixakevamesitusagoxun.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_off0000b7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7B0 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 8233e7c4b2cba0dbb7698fc6993047b0086f664e643aeb1588ea5de89866ed04
font_01_sfnt_off0000d05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05A 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7baa74cb7d5d7cf71e5cd1dc22912a2dee18e37f24177f54f899363df2fe875a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1