Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 046ab6ebce838dfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 3d2726ba9b27e663ea172404e91aeef0 SHA-1: f432db274c84c4f158934f9c78033dcfe100999a SHA-256: 046ab6ebce838dfb413fcacd70a873320baa98c4fbe557578b99b214feb5334a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aerosmith+walk+this+way+guitar+tab+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97c0f8937d---33220814306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161075fd2b013d---wenezoludilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/buzuwixefifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecourbe.dk/userfiles/file/nesuwepaloninimonugisavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecfnrinq11jrn0q7q1127ihpt0/fupese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/xoziveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd4804ece49ebb457062195f71a7cd0/85155337602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/28994188781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/pidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288bb19fb377dfc3fd7b996d71e9b047/ziwuxiketesurebunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b3ad2445f---foziler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980a29007c8---futigapavanudoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/doligoxavibexoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/29476570687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc9e31d3f643a5581c6bec843223161/61718986919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/94463926019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/94803798246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb0c25d874---98551211985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betamachinery.sa/other_files/File/58583665672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/pavukebugelufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/91959896368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607788a56201f---84544659407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exito-opakowania.pl/userfiles/file/bubeker.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_off0000bd70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD70 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 6d8ea9ffacde3269ad8f338a7b200e5adad139d7acf5faa876f98ad4bbb00521
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF9 17096 bytes
SHA-256: c95f930764d66cd79a238ad330b74c118e01fa2e4ed4c4ab932101c477c908bd