Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46239c5030fb2840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:29:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f3f0d0cd18eab01a4b31c2a0bfb69191 SHA-1: e367a431b385d7f88a7492de574236ea18d59d63 SHA-256: 46239c5030fb284032f83427f114016d44afaf63b3a222be576ca94a70aebe79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function of this document is to serve as a link farm, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware by directing users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+will+happen+to+a+plant+cell+if+it+is+kept+in+a+hypotonic+solution PDF link annotation
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ad8fedb31---fudebotebup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a35784c88a---32166356134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26723099315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/falosubobenadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c1b22046f---39400783370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6ce451d97---kusufoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c68b6a6b29---37549949474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16807747682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noblacklist.pro/web/img/podborky/files/84833327928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3cfcd2b6fb---nivakexisarizezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec16f997bb---xiwikofadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec78c2f1ca56019f2b6427543c5b0be/vafanebirubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6shofh2oqjqfmlr3r5oi61c0hb/balugatexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73434082732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/35811797457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5620de630---fidupitawegaloziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f22e85f41b---vasabazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1h9ft8gls1bbu9q39hi4scjaa4/norozitavoxebuwopusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7f088f711e17601f11a8f75100419f/9297374685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/30808332593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc87e9f11028b8c78bf9108250b94d4a/28102459172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72e8e44087f0a4276dec0fe10c9e1e2/vuwutopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/26712297442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88ad093a89---9613326440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/vejejakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/bubali.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_off0000f48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9E 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 6972c26213b5fb714647d0214a2ad1025da121ec37f378aa345783a82df74748
font_02_sfnt_off00013aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAF 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 64bc13759b479cc8ce7ca6059d1ea4b0091b2da10f673a4d649808b99a3c3048