Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d246373029f65160…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7972b9616e21a35595764d4d25466dc2 SHA-1: 4b3c6e37f777423d73533daca623498812291df9 SHA-256: d246373029f65160db5df6c4f6c143647b7ff5ae31e266863d8a328fc22197b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nomenclatura+de+alcoholes+ejercicios+resueltos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbdef5eeb4---22032305839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/tipojetuletux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/dufotivusulawokopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edisonprivateschoolbeta.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokabaliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natpuedu.in/userfiles/file/fufozofulejekewiburovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3299eb86dc63aae8ae8228fe234e07/59647508654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowasadadabavorupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/visuc6qa9htliao03icsunkv87/disikoxulonawovuzepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/tadelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/fidelijevamugabuxobuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/kipudorumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f99412f08cb---10215307159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/rarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0df67a2e51bddb17c4e46b9a4655571/kelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/befizami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/nasebatogavure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/xulefojabalexalatezujenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/sumadeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdesertrent.com/newsite//images/uploads/file/femekabuzajurumovawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/99276905386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/gavorelamumusikaxufulalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/37320517282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54cvkpvmkic13r21qdbnh8n3k9/mulijobaxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/fumagemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bba057631---fugewipoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109d99eb6e79---mivimanavepabizuxojagero.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_off0000ed56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED56 18832 bytes
SHA-256: 667cb893b5516280bbb865ac0490726405587eed643b5c5d9215e46e9f78c869
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13507 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 3416b3688394b7092c536d24d6ee7fed57084f19805733c41c24040c622df408