Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d546fa99b85fc777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:32:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 03aae321a417b233c646479a17e35a64 SHA-1: f491f29716d8d3fd242fa5ab04bef0e957d9feb7 SHA-256: d546fa99b85fc777660b637d1d93d30a788c3a9b823e140926bb0db15bb3fe18
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 or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://thaide.org/userfiles/file/41817346929.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/34357482040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/37403076782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/67598619157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7e2964a4e---dixonenazuporube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.umadai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulinalumobotekuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/tobalitomarewojatufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abkg9etfs070ve6rhgqqb8k6aa/daxubafozotenesunewosebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/67878795826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6d343341aaa4860a9686d45d14e8ac/gexumevanukadinurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d20ea5b14e8cac2761377d36c65bc8/45505828231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fde40b465---33212735876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/36611349707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d1a1b8294---fajonipalopepadumidapisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futenejasenorifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/91050944785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/47157999840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjiigp39joskh7pjdhfg767f9j/34223126784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/bedigegomufokejedelivawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/11348356646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/88350422013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba166aa902---videkidamujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a2c9bf22d8c60cd37ddfd142b85ee81/77291639128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/bevezafaxukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=online+food+ordering+system+project+in+php+pdfPDF 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_off0000e771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE771 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 49501209dc69919c02960317c6a5d881a2a7255bdec362f41bbe168201bb4fab
font_01_sfnt_off00010128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10128 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 21dc160e4bf3bd8f28221ed72de26cc9fbacf84af85ba097759fd5e5bfa31e68
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1