Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db146ff95ee821f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:54:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 259d8b65132682666bddae71c8185a8e SHA-1: a7df7cb0fe26eec096fedb8c08ef799ec89a47bd SHA-256: db146ff95ee821f3aef1c9b074c06f2d53fdb80002272036a5ce9f65a4452c51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

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 https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58163851952.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amkchem.com/upload/files/10572816303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mb-classic-service.de/userfiles/file/5544934593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///65127484607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd.webseo.tw/upload/files/netofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/97818857915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/astcl7fsgu0r3mvvud5cu68cl0/86701192353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheesykeju.com/contents/files/dizepemerokomavazabuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/pepowatonofijegubejelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48078731922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nut-shell.net/upload/files/kasofovonoxasoworamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/fopikodivifomezafubewosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/rukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/pagusemobuzemosazabumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b4672b85ecececdde22ad709dc5a6f/kuxoxanozozepesutixekepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/ridujezameva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95e291a97751688f110c9843d671bd8/90625981212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezowewisavefizitajugeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/19206361911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/19832002000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huuphongplastic.vn/uploads/images/files/52138704991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/12525351198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/88736205039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://estatepie.com/files/userfiles/file/54585952185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=go+figure+2005PDF 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_off0000deb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 10324 bytes
SHA-256: b31052eb525c573f35ac5d4eb9c2e8391105dc23dadef8d32563838be7d70f78
font_02_sfnt_off00010e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E48 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 443daae4c49ac2016416c69fc0a78bd04c43df05b82515fc39db7dd1df9feb5f

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