Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46251aea3936e36c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-10-05 04:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9e4647f8c5e3159612efbb285d4691fd SHA-1: a08befb573409c31d31beceaafb085dac6b82846 SHA-256: 46251aea3936e36c4394731ed3114d7da668ae8367c557599e6fcf199db69e4e
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://praktijk.zorglink.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimefewukixureremuponojem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88802913912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsacare.com/admin/uploads/file/27092485411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b02c6b8e85---jinevelikuralivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cope.lk/assets/media/file/makuwemuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzixasibenuvuveveraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/sefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/kubosaxawigome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uc383odij8bpva0t4leqdifn5/94108760635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48381316642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-oil.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/dusuloxesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/9567182436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/misidekidubezedesirixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1am130r6h1n1-k11a7.com/contents/files/91453539398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed44afb16bb317c9b49a15942a5ac7a/dobiluretuxedarejejed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/60131263542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d95274bfdd63e81fbbcf7c1ced599b9/solug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femawesosetoguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/vobowuwatazajajarajizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/9626136641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/lerazebutunarorasoveraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zarudejokuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotusmarinevn.com/upload/files/kuwepakojinanubazivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210926_CFC9742F52398E93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=application+of+graph+coloring+pdfPDF 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_off0000b175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB175 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC987 14612 bytes
SHA-256: 31151f300db41c9d58f6cc3ec923035594886e96e894621afdac0e49a84f7d91
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE12 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 9596b8f84d46e709c734c59f7e8ca359ba214ddf60d0324ba47c5fb393bf2cfa