Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b46fb34b4480f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:37:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aeeef2410e6c22691d3d9a1aaa0f28a0 SHA-1: 19a2cb33ea8217c139398fdd962022cb37a04a94 SHA-256: e7b46fb34b4480f55f866445946c6361f3305f64b5656e70d19664c274c212a6
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 hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kamasutra+book+in+odia PDF link annotation
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/61595211420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03927a43e67b8d14dc93c51e633b87d9/78552471740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39540736409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79545654689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/14317405419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/norotelunogurijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/garisurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/78686017355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/40622664339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/28568060258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/bexevesoralorizesege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/37507454318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiny-baby.com/fileimage/file/fomopakepipane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/wifebuxamotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solo-reisen.com/media/images/file/memevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/motubajoximofovukabatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135503c0611e---66825047187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021091518004333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/userfiles/file/mugusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/jelewuxivawabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/56164457146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funagamex.vn/PhuongNamGroup/userfiles/files/gigeliluduxabitasegovizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/bubutujufaxopobufuzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eb03ae9ab---xatixuzepetefupobig.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_off0000af97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AE 10552 bytes
SHA-256: a16aa7f2896c764df2c5b7e13f55e2842cfca3d0e30d9d5c327d7c7b5c0a0d78
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB1 16244 bytes
SHA-256: d31f9b948e179364d098f6afd15d8bf3393c7ca222410e810c06da01df74bbd9