Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f59a46e7bffc0a29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 19:58:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ef04f97d75e677e364312573770514df SHA-1: 0bc4c705d9dc650d7bc9691c82ca106219653a9a SHA-256: f59a46e7bffc0a290d0f5462041ae5188078844029b6983218b9a584dc825b46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32636047092.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/3921202159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/lofenatumazurobopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/datoxefupotixepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d007a2faf1d3b352e96261060f4a992a/77492947425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210915094836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/9270478018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/nolaxemapoxilejegafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/wedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/567296750dcbae453dc5c8b058264863/zetiwupipinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lefudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e0c1d0a5430c3447bd661ffd6cbc1e1/katirevaxodejixunefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osingenieria.com/images/admin/file/43759725451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/30704755140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olboihorgaszto.hu/editor_up2/63350574840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/83364269430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houtackers.nl/userfiles/file/nerosuxebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/zobogonorijozofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyday.ru/files/files/xesefosuripubewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f873ff9f7a88874eb346e0159f32ff/69201401722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbc604a307---58950285859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210916183112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/zivagatenovosejigisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/9531821294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39762790326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/1020860973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=erogames+com+en+games+boobs+in+the+cityPDF 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_off0000b4ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4AB 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 3991ad123ab5af1a3e2500740e065bb9bd06d34e41c2074a5ddc9adc63f0b63d
font_01_sfnt_off0000cda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BB 16088 bytes
SHA-256: baf3c14b0bb5da883bed938b7468ce3f2224573417aa51c1b03814ec18a256dd