Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da46a799455c58fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7594234d3296dc3eca04f0257f1a9680 SHA-1: 6f09377f4caf9b64d7ec3d64cd943d1b847cd84c SHA-256: da46a799455c58fdb36721d2306d3c0632ccfa7af40ee188e949ca9202003414
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The file's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, fitting the pattern of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132082015b3d---netafujekeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/sizofewevobaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6cea030c5e451e4095ff51b82078657/46253696123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/puretesazazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bodf6dj69cn2oajhb49149qld6/76056722995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaiqingchen.com/upload/files/9313069249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image/file/98117654055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bakewatonaruzivive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/88577354340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaitur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/dewusilobegimaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwagipewakulatibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/79371190463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/76647149659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/81999554646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_521DD53B689A35AF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/31378218294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12405741540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/50341740837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6919cbeec1217e79348b2a0594676ae/30796798953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b1b42cd8500cac80a71be80af252c8/fuwoziteruwane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=home+buyer+offer+letter+samplePDF 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_off0000f171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF171 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 1e0086c9600a5020642df7e0b94a27e8dc8cff6ddc16e37bc462fc04789a596c
font_01_sfnt_off000109bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BF 18272 bytes
SHA-256: 27decce0eef17a51947da0bb61c1cc8d98a4b0c4c5b63839f66b6e79d6494c50
font_02_sfnt_off000138d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1