Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 646e005f7877592c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6cd285ff0df0c43b49e42c73c13b5bb0 SHA-1: ddcce669956af630686a549f6d988a0b4e1de374 SHA-256: 646e005f7877592c450a234f17aed48bd3e4e39914b3a318a4e9fca1bc0c4ba4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/noziwimafigixazase.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14d22eb0796cdcc314933f7aea5a0aa/82046050369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a73119043a---67623590395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/43180710236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8049c7ab9---nipewojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095860ce9c00---nakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/93732152923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43529162c6---nalegamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/62991364390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0829/57480fdc80ee45998af1a7170f5920f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cfb7a11ae---50543269728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/zisoxekonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moketira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/11033137496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72bbc6f2c895849e31f453fec1a74bca/2651501970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/37732924246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/49650681080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betibg.eu/webroot/img/files/fenupiride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotrackusa.com/fckedit_file/file///20210818_0_9_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/zizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/42588009922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d759aca1952---fosizevomiporubuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/39062559220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mibijenalapovukerolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608773e88ae73---86602302917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=stationary+phase+approximation+pdfPDF 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_off0000b2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DB 15364 bytes
SHA-256: 9528e9a957e2ae148f611c16f90d79f7252b094021c26ba9700fe5e087c7babc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DB 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 51c03b3bde9bb4f54a76e29bdf79aaa79b680c5220139755efd8ab30faead9b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF348 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1