Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 846a1b3de71e7df7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 86694be551eae376b28bb946876fa009 SHA-1: a95948649fdf20549ae2bd15018dc4ba2d359b2b SHA-256: 846a1b3de71e7df79ac4ba83d2c6fbd0782eb46e87faebcd50c25c2bf5b89b81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to redirecting users to malicious content or downloading further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm and compromised hosting point towards a malicious redirection or phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inability+to+swallow+after+stroke
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3b6c52f3c776281a5833339bc57fa9/bovibuxotafize.pdf
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/35284098780.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607417824b432---6209396174.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/24192236979.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc6a68e73---nipafiguzujipojabelivekav.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608339d7559a9---24151614945.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba066b1347---pepatogetogezonis.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b21fbc2977---muxugibagorime.pdf
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/pekunijopuredegezap.pdf
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/41019196404.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b96976e93---95790331126.pdf
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/18082166254.pdf
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85od5b3fnji4r11d3ecki5s9an/58085775257.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcv30lki71vdjarp4ghb3q878m/24995739240.pdf
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu0nasblcqlvj9nuoktl3uvhli/fodujidediwuzi.pdf
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/32632820775.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b61107865013660440b4cf96b9211ca5/10457206746.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812e772ebbd---10134407011.pdf
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/kapofozajudiri.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/701141e12c11ed1a0d58d17fcb783917/dejoxogas.pdf
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/gukomujarubi.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/dijogigomusuj.pdf
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///juwesikapab.pdf
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/genufopadugapaxajifegeb.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ipq37n6l0f1nbted5ttv1sse65/wolivubatosomepetapob.pdf
    • 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_off00010085.bin
0811454d11179ba90f7599b3351b743441499e40c3c93c89c72df5c6cad93bc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10085 17012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012ca4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000144bb.bin
0e92569bac4923242dfda3fb86f5d3457c133800beeb0cbe8fe84c377dadd034
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144BB 10588 bytes