Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c46435f1375f198…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:07:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4078ab1283d01595884d4062dac9ecfd SHA-1: cf772401c00c510a3978ae26044eab75f232d24c SHA-256: 0c46435f1375f1986d16cd69fd45b785887742377ec1b62d46ae7832f519b2df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates the document's primary function is to host and distribute links to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=irregular+verbs+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f7d449ca8---59183451312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/61428585753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secoinblock.com/upload/files/dubemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l61b0gl64de2rrgvl2pl8u18q0/47644876097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/460008370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/bexujisovofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/68561124327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunijazarajesujiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16i192vli1984p7tib1gseeekl/wazakuzomirevuzibiwililor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc64cfe57d1---17504184998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/nimevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69290732334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/jilaxomamositofukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b354ff7f1a2---vadudewubuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33cdbd71bbc097e41ad982221ad220a9/mimivorofukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/wetumefotazadajesebibuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e14751e9a80787ffe251f158b2a5601/wenovokeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqmlc309vn4rc54qoaobmjas94/53266849619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcivan.com/admin/UserFiles/file/19300091394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5feebe171---20981514245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734085cea33---40051461136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3005deb0a9---wirimeruruxigopisidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f6fcc375106b56ef849a388fb14001/viwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2200bc3f8b---32188794738.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_off0000ca56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA56 18248 bytes
SHA-256: d26e7d4d08fd4c2f0929e27977269ef2ffe314692b02229f56d07748163a8b57
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98E 11016 bytes
SHA-256: b7e9d75422b86f5faeb3d3301906e9fdc634c52d74307d5719eef11205702461
font_02_sfnt_off00011300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1