Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0646f667b489d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-08-03 14:16:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d14046b1a1f96daefd04c2dc612e4bda SHA-1: a44a1cf132a36c03db98b4ee91c0f2f90b74d8e3 SHA-256: e0646f667b489d7f4da2e3d97ee211093c81dfa4ffe8869ce2883756a0468964
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious PDF document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://aspirans.com/files/file/fogosivezibel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/vefobajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161009627150d0---83986012355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb487e924ceb489f3bc926ef9e61cb10/lojajobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/limijewakigiregag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug7pkl3kpba9hsk3aohoh319eq/77331631580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/kirawejuzogepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93aa88e44---jobipuwemoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d42e7779dd---10779028341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdca5a3b82b3f32321ab921da91fbf32/76339543310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/36967281018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavogikibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098641ac4b6c---tavekizimoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmjqriebq42bsaelq3l05nbnsi/fotanoxatovavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/juzafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837a0be28ca---fewopudusixopukefovusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/10335139845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865a8115c55---88973006784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39088697759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52e0fd8003a2058b8f363116ea8c1ef/sexuxabixogobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/sobavopugetufamofimus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f87f11035e---butazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1j9ukq96dpgq4g1qkp1keq973/33770902078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108508d951e3---dizetiputibevige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/7062657580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/sodaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+first+of+the+12+steps+of+aaPDF 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_off0000fb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001137d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137D 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 1e8344638462e121d107a25671a51a74358057da47180adbf4b8f38829943931
font_02_sfnt_off00012b87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B87 16764 bytes
SHA-256: e25401ec2564491e1893663d967c6d7677f718231415e539a4bf1984b3377c0d