Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7546022f48057401…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:32:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 737452b0ef8c9f5f9b98eedc75b9c0f7 SHA-1: 7540f58f4d0c1a67532ae6de59a3eb9384792828 SHA-256: 7546022f48057401d65adfa7944e4db80f2bb3ab6900f095f20c51552ab11305
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's designed to obscure its true purpose, which is likely to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://altus.pl/userfiles/file/bifedipidifina.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/81851714324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2619028dcc36d22adab6528487ccc5d/rovunajakake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142aa1d0feb2---99855775876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fillaracingacademy.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25146881902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/jowekikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjaindonesia.com/sitefiles/file/93107169461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52098397051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///2583839722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavevateti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/vibadojazobure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135322f83c60---60575693083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taixingchem.com/uploadfile/file/20210911010756822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuszdounky.cz/files/diweraxage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomimilatepepugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.biz/files/files/32589330260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/94755667820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/45239054796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/66812427402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/mazasaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0329596743cdadee152941f7eb110bc/tuvomiresabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/77614722577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/jewebazevikuxaboxowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinnituskozpont.hu/files/95435599348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=esp+for+krunkerPDF 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_off0000b94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB94A 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 97087fdee0fdf0db59cf8cb811ec0c9d26e45a55a45713378911a76ed524e8b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD009 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 508f06317034ab297a546ee36816f375eae42f18e7fc7166f82bd4ea746250cf
font_02_sfnt_off0001007e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1