Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a246ca06c445b53b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 16:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3079430f2ac5b0a93e68887ef7fb39fb SHA-1: 11896bdbe9d1bbacecc8419dfa07683d6de8ba5d SHA-256: a246ca06c445b53b772e53cb0ea2e6cfc3881a245b90e6ae6507d74701cb0202
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically points to a link farm strategy, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+emulator+on+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://edisonprivateschoolbeta.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93666951166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/49984351014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majedalkarkhi.com/pics/file/78146521959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/telipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmrmhss.com/userfiles/file/40974997242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/vamukowivozufusoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teen.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepovuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82512164696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/89053561614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapifomasigetivelamumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/zinikaditikidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630951243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/31748433096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/69404393571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/54290336780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614acaf44e456---1985485372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magdrywall.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/30447609501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijetisekupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0f6421d88---47533366874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40943507947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curtain.jinware.com/upload/files/66608456814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20981907611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/8912369342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4b3418fa0---34245367064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21335880613.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_off0000b260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB260 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA72 17268 bytes
SHA-256: f59ed2ab3cef8ea8ed9f6e9d0aa86176a236dc0ceae5cfc5961ad249f4fba408
font_02_sfnt_off0000f70b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: b980168c2e5c9564fb7bb1eda161bb09f43f5667677752910d77460d3a2ded14