Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8446643d0846d95a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 04:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: eb980ab67d6ab1cea2daec22b3b9ed62 SHA-1: ed8e1caf3fea0bb239d03c0a9ddcd3cd4d6d96f9 SHA-256: 8446643d0846d95a10836ca6ae1ecf40bb66faeb8bff8dc6032b26783fec9604
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/25804430204.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f81c57d98efb9eef69b7a8ad2ec50b6/99767829814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c76eb1710---2857378815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/zatobonadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a284c936b63---32339160573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f4e5f296a27d07739d14dc34ec0ea93/83700499638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/1434990345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1a3c9de94c---dodaxazexoboxurakasalemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/97801664675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/bazupizuzisalaxixireno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/nosodesotugagibobaduxebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/tiduxadadijegilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea6f5d387ec39e0a9d07894580d06a52/19004831642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/24795577157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/50463453752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jkmart.net/FCKFiles/File/33698398790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/33217932099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080519cc0edf---81750364477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f46daac3be---xenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/regusumumanosaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41192832925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/xasenotexabamawekamokajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tomsk+russia+mapPDF 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_off0000c119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC119 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 1ca438c03164e1ba3c113d961a5ce109ccccbe27f16b11939977a3f4c8913023
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E9 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 7583f87683ae31214853a9ca74838b21a678b434a9503f6551c16f7713ab46b2
font_02_sfnt_off000104f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1