Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46246af56dd821f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 02:37:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d643b67e4eeb81f15e248bdc37514eb7 SHA-1: fc46b8531fdc63de54d0b258566d32f6aaef3ba8 SHA-256: 46246af56dd821f6747d95b109094a93ce0a49cc42a3db93c6e5b3cda1b5c73a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering technique. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a distribution mechanism for malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://brlairport.com/images/file/44493502230.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/jeniderebimonufopijivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/97299224560e981a9c9bbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ba24ef5e7---61660424878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a922e3c4795---takazerodopedijimape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3evu6h3pb6jggmqmrrpisdqtb2/lotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t5b5lden0617m04h15sk1tsq3/59883002623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fcb976933---24970619806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908ec67cee4---84623525063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53685620897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9t6n807fcs2b5alugavinatpr/lalenagesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/68030662363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sog7jmdapom7cnq5tpj7ej1mdb/mipewizurirajalidujilisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/mafejinekalofifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/64980088503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/desijosufuxeneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/60257092422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/tazegewolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055a69621b214243ff00094f2b775662/toditogigomuwanomujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/vopodezumubobivuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/88978094189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1094fbb97111b801d861e1a1e7ca0c/10042065012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00601508f634021359040993a35c8fb2/liriwizozomaserebuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/7754180824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/26688683315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=nicovideo+to+mp4PDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000fb27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001133e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133E 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 01534d74aa2b44bd73c65f36285ee99643c8db012541ccf3f698d151148fde3e
font_02_sfnt_off00012a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A38 17248 bytes
SHA-256: e22c01f134faef633e950a4114e4b52895d499aca59ce435d76e30b581f35349