Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f346b489230c4b40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: de6036f723ba7cb75c73efb95146af22 SHA-1: ca140fad3d7980c0647ffb374c42bb7490054b13 SHA-256: f346b489230c4b40ac403584bd850fe6784cf0496e08e9989815f8cfaa156865
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://criminisiepartners.it/userfiles/files/72609294388.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/271454406102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/42533824955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/wukulatagoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/67040330456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9db0c5b949---tuwenikafikusonelopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82d93e3f01cf5feb045c01709a28ff62/baremunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161293f29958de---nuwijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e04ebc30f---xeketipelabidurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/10639002088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/56460336575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d5d59991e---bokije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724909eba59---54515582615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/xanezojogusudalarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/87347904944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/95082181285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748585b099a---putiserunijelukatetanawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilsagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/3098380060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/mivasujodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jq9icro4lk362nf9dp2e1tt23/7034174201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/baronufugovijasekida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-go.org/files/lokesazitetib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/60303725979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=lalitha+sahasranama+kannada+lyrics+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EE 22824 bytes
SHA-256: 6d4e06a4f8d4fe96c8d2e365a291228f723e837bbcffcf9d8b2a6ccb6041b077
font_02_sfnt_off00011a23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A23 1888 bytes
SHA-256: 228445a3744f13af4bf84041e55802a923554d86926eb0745489ea117e4ab105
font_03_sfnt_off000122ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122ED 10796 bytes
SHA-256: f3a57fc162550373e33c9189091128f1e40d83e62488356ef5f46cfb67b5f822