Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd1f46146b1b864c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 09:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 46f20a9d021a350ac5cccba5bc1c9a37 SHA-1: 995bf9dfe21013474f6b8a655f3a84ba2f008e9f SHA-256: dd1f46146b1b864c9d1fef912ececda81bba67c64692bd27c6e4130662e30933
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+cat+is+hissing+at+me PDF link annotation
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/52599843947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/kanunijufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/regadenowokolesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8ce77ee2d3a0e53e1abeea693aa66d/mugikoborire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wigemodibijozesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcd7fd4cf64---8621677192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/wokevazewasagiworadevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762c3fe7c8b---medetodemunerelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/zamibotajinatukozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/15264721719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotinepmuveszeti.hu/kovagoors/uploads/files/72215477174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125405017562---85678169673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ftjt6ijs2dkesidadn3d4svc/jexijodolobalunenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/civ82j8ts4s5ujfsqofjvkhekd/62292896556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d7cb1fdc4779c15b4c587647a389aea/sawofasupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rebesr975ait2nvv0fusfqjev6/35980128812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/55383234734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nq19ud7mctr276lmis5huicf0/towojamivadijitanuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161245a41b15c9---72693193817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb9976cec---40018474886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/bokozimalaravawevolude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grhs1983.com/clients/72571/File/1627390695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/rerukalorowifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1456b477b---15855626675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluefield1966.com/clients/26642/File/pupejagozagirapiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/98225506054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c848def560---27180363721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE246 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA58 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7eaa0aa8c116f87771e4e6f1e42f885a6ccc414cc33951884fd503db2de7d1
font_02_sfnt_off00012713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12713 10476 bytes
SHA-256: e07d1f4e5775e04df6b783ab40d4dfb5139e4339f3180d5ba9621294ec33f4c6