Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d946c10c0a648fab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9327a4b4682f6e111df4aa50ab51df9b SHA-1: b35107b6a3fe1dc5f8815ef5fb6cf71f270d99ff SHA-256: d946c10c0a648fabe0614b9b8b405730befdd36d7e9e80efbe2786374d9b85ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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 http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210831172428.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1025481d575df935091e04bcb61b65aa/fazisatutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///kijugugakuvosumofitesune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a8205bde6---jutoxigagiligejapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f256acb31b16b452499116d4b384434d/64981007515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/33324096486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/darifowiwetovorego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/dopuweronuzepexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/11042067689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/rosisuvabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b6b6ea6c2---nunezabilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/84441959161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/51539571442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25450008882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/6067137575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huucasr9lv6jds6077e6tjh1tg/18757727875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbfea5a6222---37056604405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8545764e46---mezigufufokeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/30747243876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/30495892242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/45945835438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecdf45b72a2bdd7749ef097a8f5fe7dd/84228058965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhoasis.org/app/webroot/img/fck/file/5779786620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797bbb9cbe7---5505646341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afda7b8dc60---vobuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/54836018991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=micro+milling+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_off0000e984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE984 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 4b68a5e1d53b5f5c4de9c2e0a0039f245065eaa79ac6ec1d06e84961b7072cab
font_01_sfnt_off000100ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AC 17960 bytes
SHA-256: c844587e295bd4ad1f0d00c13bc48f70b644d42a578e12d1def0f7d77a5f8158
font_02_sfnt_off00012f23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1