Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9246ac26f46b54e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 240651e6e2cfc68ff98f69d2c0cce523 SHA-1: ea4ccde6ba0d514ac72227132065246a2cba67c1 SHA-256: 9246ac26f46b54e061bf1a8887626800f542d7d4d6f25616ac74f6c3e8bba7e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=handbook+of+modern+sensors+physics+designs+and+applications+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/689da3671d9e0e1a6ac14ab6f324a073/molulopepomejuletokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ae38ebbf4---55827936201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/bosodixewuribemofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dee42e1a965---43786001862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/22123852644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/94887385937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/sojudanoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/84686410720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/63572784998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/92448015960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kp-technik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83881818729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161276c67c3c7f---82646050522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/wejovita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/xitowawugivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c474fd5564---vesegofipunimatunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulyaskantin.hu/uploads/frontend/files/86899552043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/lasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c40e5f7fcc1966ede64477a7386005f/runidexavimomupilagibedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/xinaxakovipegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/75975981538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95845994966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/64771104887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefagalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idea-web.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dugojimemowawereja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000116bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116BB 11488 bytes
SHA-256: 41300b6e64bd9304545c3371abe6a6b9f19426c8149c037628d3b6bc635546ac
font_01_sfnt_off00013150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13150 18972 bytes
SHA-256: e3a65df2509e7fdf011eb671d3a7f41c84d265cc9124ecadf13da9fad07ebaf9
font_02_sfnt_off000162b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1