Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d46f692078305bab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:28:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e54390c072c1f33cde83f3390dc22b68 SHA-1: b6f12281965f9127d5a01b9621cef419b8f5027f SHA-256: d46f692078305bab3639ac0d394544d0c0cb7c3b06e7e717ca163120cf757940
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to redirect users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://leskovec.eu/files/file/novuroluzip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cen7dias.es/userfiles/files/50815869762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613798b07c910---58216944880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/bizutejewoxoluvifalobegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/kobugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/47063170702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0af8b2a91---romatopekununaxopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/dabigamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/60146022064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/92838580176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/23555947917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/96840544768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stamforgtechnologies.com/uploads/zemulizerofatesaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51570965402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/70239933814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/foposepotesopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4943b56900aedd7f2f0fef38ba8f4d3d/19340406969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614021dcb80db---topugeguvepusexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/buzimusimizuxiwevevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd882d4785af2f2474d0f8520087ae56/kenevizuropof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109041410159281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=miui+12+note+7+globalPDF 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_off0000e9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F0 21712 bytes
SHA-256: 135099030dafeddcb4cca36a20106c7acfad43abbab44cc07d5d977e0ba5a6ad
font_01_sfnt_off0001232d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1232D 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 264808a6bc33fa389ba79d2517dc4a03c0c5bb9051058008528456cbd5fd2789
font_02_sfnt_off00013b3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1