Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e446a5d76dd2a36f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 22:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 592940732a9c5207f278151f87224f38 SHA-1: a252f0779980506156c2447a07841eb8e6a8bf10 SHA-256: e446a5d76dd2a36fa1860bc510f1fa128d44184b899ed9199e3d8f4198977475
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing and trojan activity. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure or a downloader for a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=silver+nitrate+antimicrobial PDF link annotation
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojoxebotuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/menupopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/7360030585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbaoge.com/upload/files/24261099835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/zifubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/baviwobafaxefasibule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/mipusokaridogunepajabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/zimeteduvosonirajopezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/tekobovonokejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/tawatawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210924_012315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/dajuwogusodobilozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crmsaas.dswip.com/ci/userfiles/files/45891241836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73122868753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d885f7683731ff42bc63c1917ac16c23/82888054142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/mopezover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427babc64c4---21387446560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210904232655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chothuexeninhbinh.net/data/dulieu/files/vogujikara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergepkolcsonzo.hu/userfiles/file/4045838779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1dn5h8bf32kpocvtcdr8rpk44/bovolozofo.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_off0000b0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BC 10504 bytes
SHA-256: b571e82d7b79d8052f58dd95ba084543239436965364979e9fe717a48605b728
font_02_sfnt_off0000e09b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09B 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 87c20a6a8b34bc93765fb3d15336dd9c9fd5eb7ff2fd1a74bec6059e7d618c9c