Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a46cbbf86af914d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:01:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a288f274dc4921afc09e65ec73d7968c SHA-1: 2a047cc1a86b7c1096c040cff795f2231c86bdad SHA-256: 1a46cbbf86af914dce21d88652740c8ca3d9e317deea9aebf3de04cc595c6e7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436c8f88685---4472483588.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/wopekarutozeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/45954411584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c8dd2378c79b517d48eda75695e7ed/pelelatanadudedirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/17393867173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251c0e1c78964fe75f03a7b3aa18939a/93114839825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hingliltd.com/userfiles/71973704334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/75722468859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368b3649765---76173831783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/felojuliwajogifalilevewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd820b7002---tamidiroxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43498038612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/2226051198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6749317109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skinct.com/upload_file/file/Fl202109151617407798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alajwakh.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/novisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210903004650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/fefevomegitepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/xapimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/14221290838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenways.at/userfiles/file/52504537311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b9a6753cc---24518621865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/72908609397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b55338bbc0e3c15f4a696ec941a720/21394530641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesei.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=connect+mi+tv+to+mobilePDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/gusezuxebetujovunezes.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_off0000d053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD053 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE865 17164 bytes
SHA-256: d75744a6052443ccf0606f094b6bccb29ed97341abfb01721554ec9ab6b66314
font_02_sfnt_off000114f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F3 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 6cdd8052c21cbbd61e04bb368b9e580ee4df40f76e4a9cff23849ee259b2f129