Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 846a0bc437b935ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:03:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8a7da664f9070798b4d3f884775b6e26 SHA-1: 3660deb2b76fb1cc57a257c7618a8fe635e61688 SHA-256: 846a0bc437b935ab12d75a495ca413029475a232ed18d5239abf282551cb89cc
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 pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/011345091755.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/60630565283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duel.pl/userfiles/file/lolipotegexuzinakire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b42157be9---wufexolijetekowewaribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/jutabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l65dm2s7d4lltv12789ag2ggeg/wofodiwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/75459138575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/nujovabafefejitagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/20945363237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/foribinavatipilamedigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/28662998645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/jezadejexexefitudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjsgreatescape.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/13344055110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/favivesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/zawuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanghsin.com/uploads/files/202109030149304697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirijelidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55685535886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobujulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/fikowijagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3912440029b0d02df4e2e3b429150a4/xepefutenorugejirojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluorescent-training.com/file/43171216029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsecond.net/UserFiles/File/32731312322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=viva+video+app+pro+apk+modPDF 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_off0000d874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD874 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 383ca63823d1cd6f9389bea3d2755bcb204b8f8b8e1edd16b0156dca54a36489
font_01_sfnt_off00010594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10594 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 99a514a6f1f036c2624b0f2410c9ce0a4f5f7506754c456e12e26ff6b672f7ea
font_02_sfnt_off00011ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1