Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c469186c8f0ed480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 14:34:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ed308b9d45b2e6b8eb9e725668041049 SHA-1: 65400093e75fb65dea5ebb74b4195c071a49db5c SHA-256: c469186c8f0ed480d71cebd71b374df38d0054b7229eabbb44cf3f67368baae7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or domains used for hosting potentially malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/74217208290.pdf
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/nekabulekafiwej.pdf
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/66632575541.pdf
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/naramofonubudare.pdf
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a3e28d7cb2c35122f8ba85c1b45fe3a/pobitoxupixivekujow.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/pebix.pdf
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/wunorarogi.pdf
    • http://truthtube.com/UserFiles/file/nujopuziwe.pdf
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/91606617573.pdf
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/kufofexepibep.pdf
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/17851590640.pdf
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/94840151973.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nocb25cnobisqppbgvce06e4q5/jalutap.pdf
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/89185871149.pdf
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/81472768894.pdf
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xerusafepiv.pdf
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages//files/96229388615.pdf
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0023129001624950647.pdf
    • https://mo-space.space/web/img/podborky/files/45557158519.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f01a0ccdf39---xefopanunivivigafixetogu.pdf
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/lanowewademazulod.pdf
    • https://serpavenger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23001017173.pdf
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebfa89e1d524d01832494fc13fd96eaa/sedakidu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=kung+fu+panda+secrets+of+the+masters+online
    • 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_off0000b7fa.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7FA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d011.bin
36e22e98c5e3be5b389ac0f8ff1b0d903880d2a99a046989f88674ef3c426d5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD011 11160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9b9.bin
4b87ab6f6b3ff7850897d72c0a47d3aa041356610461ca753cabb251a64b6d42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B9 17468 bytes