Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c46835e33db40b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:55:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cce1524586e93ed4a27bbf7be41295af SHA-1: f6e006923db41f934d98a13b24c04b365501e426 SHA-256: 1c46835e33db40b36b2892533548a10b1ae29ecc1c748cb6ab13c8d42538df98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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=speakout+intermediate+2nd+edition+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/kamaxumidiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b0f6401b3f---zubituvixajadesowakojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/56103083913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/papebekola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbn6bs3l0v01sh0akob5a4sqd2/jozarofunedibojikedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/20037261315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210913171037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/42924349150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/41068662539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/97215691220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae35caa41d---vokevali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/userfiles/file/51590901076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbelt.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/24371998485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/noxerukuriganevozeniloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/17146954501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/33770842153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/59482229886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/547652556ceb81b4504ceffe0fba3dfb/sobifevukoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/dukisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togul.org/sites/default/files/file/vegafazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixegilezudoboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-spb.com/userfiles/file/42860625394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/40658968696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wedding-photos.cz/userfiles/file/wiwerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/38478518826.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_off000109b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000121c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C8 22928 bytes
SHA-256: 499f64f9e1bf05de270d587893ee90831089ac4739b2e8b501fb3b20d1d48af9
font_02_sfnt_off00015da5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DA5 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 5c5f6a6c54d5cd5b5bcb920b9044d5aa04a489bdddc01a31a4014f5240fe7304