Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d46513ba7e11d053…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 00:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a1384de24f34362c019b745625879151 SHA-1: 24bf2c7e21bfe890760033c1297733525ed7b8d5 SHA-256: d46513ba7e11d053adaa4bf9922097ffb3f0aa1a7a8e3acbb4451a67b2250004
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hacker+wifi+id PDF link annotation
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/xuwixaxova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615384f16196c---22878180118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/wivuxodupawokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-in.info/bramy/userfiles/file/jedusiritovigaxados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d472ecf2d3---7814013099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/fowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bourgogne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26962931718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/rowidujema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19185344876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/157295ad56b5cdd7a36ff0c0029d5447/26471443468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23289526580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumuvodepagolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/pafurogutikuzeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109032057068856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5820006c5331b129933e453ca47684cf/kikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/vigulagegatobasajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/29086577109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152b993a3f25---87358138712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matratva.in/userfiles/file/77310462874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/20631215908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/8006588383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retenuvadafadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909024730926486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/nokuderenusomuluze.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_off0000b8d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8D0 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 7823fd4884603fbc62fe555a76a7552fe10991fb52f0d121c7f593c2fe0a5adb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCB 10104 bytes
SHA-256: bef87f27f2d057950c4f118718df54b4a8d6481368516aaf90ef5f6b84865a00