Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 746866a6c1af2699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-26 08:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10b317c681cd6ae407ae6699d8001998 SHA-1: bd081cfd48a9be4d7884c45395524ebd5b75780d SHA-256: 746866a6c1af2699d960302c717dcfd1f44fa7f35476f60828efe389b3997a80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a tactic of using compromised websites to host or redirect to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/45688070715.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/vanobo.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58b649032b---lakomoribuburarudedokuzun.pdf
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minagevesurofolik.pdf
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76094849511.pdf
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/25069477601.pdf
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/jirolewelakewujugolub.pdf
    • http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_3E04B77E9C4BF9F0.pdf
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/69731391434.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c407ca8c2---41094126367.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0efe425d63---gikatew.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62191034dd874b97ab5a66850b020455/78832117355.pdf
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/xujatu.pdf
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/lulovesifemuvatasi.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5e7d4b28e3---guvugukemineniladukutaw.pdf
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e668c1274csberv6aetfu71fi/siwixuzobimorazuwozefuzan.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2969aeeae4e6342d577c2c0b2b88d1/mafujebululiworavoz.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93a9e64fae---zegixida.pdf
    • https://sabunwangi.com/contents//files/zofiravoluvawofuda.pdf
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/kiraj.pdf
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/34101928576.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076792f2dbb2---mefuxebuzas.pdf
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210719175035.pdf
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/78231452575.pdf
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/42484015364.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=game+online+minecraft+classic
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e569.bin
5fa5cf84f168d6dd5bd75ec754e9de6747d8abde7930ed4b3ec29ae544030d35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE569 16508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001105f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012876.bin
7dc1790a5e20ccf16c807954418306700ab0ca351c1b53ed37e08121657e8af2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12876 10536 bytes