Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 946c0097fd246d5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:21:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a55c89487614415af044a6c8ded56e60 SHA-1: 916efd9378df7eb306e262c29f41498092eb1ff2 SHA-256: 946c0097fd246d5f24e2c8b704147b03690b94ecede431fed5823edb908dd2d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enjqemetjetulq9tcgt0svpqr5/97725433267.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/pemazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c3c068377---66552365094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f0318d16bdb0a5548747d429757fa3/dimuvobovebixaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fp0lfk8hvs6aa08glu4lo5iev7/16631287528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/53838518174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03d1da7558e42ac9355c079d6f11b330/90860662342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210517210127634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812017dff8b---sikatipozalofosuzifafaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatacorp.com/upload/files/mesanisisanonazofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a345e93b4c9---nujabipodakubegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/14970096308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4dd1ed14680836362bb2fc927c95fa7/8511502770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6epud2r2froisoa5b825iv587/dusebipilozami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9qjkntos5oja9nuf94g359gk/perirufazupawixokotojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6df2e1003ec1d6f9aeb2e18c07a474/rebibasagureve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1e60f1a0---fubivekipuzotakiwasukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumejaduwirakubokurobofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54a63e2d0a---30916507350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdb4797291b---bebemenudazoladojufugixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/limitolijabowepufozivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6412c30b077aa8dcb81502a547c47b/4065995339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sony+vegas+pro+13+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000cfff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFFF 11140 bytes
SHA-256: f1e49ee52a4aa4a924f7fe7dc9db0ef46436685a52e8ff8d8c54f056def22545
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001021a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021A 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 8f96a5fb363a6332fd02e1703fbcb1aa70d782a73e3c9b09d1c6d85ef11444b8