Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46282f9b9f4e427a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-23 20:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 168701335698219dc6d6d5c6503168ad SHA-1: 6c99272ddc8c3789e90873a8240d11dcc82d3fa1 SHA-256: 46282f9b9f4e427a876d13b91c5fa3fa6523e5432de144be4e2e5fc4ab245f6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to exploit user trust by masquerading as search results or legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ave+maria+de+schubert+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941403690eb---27187072487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ecb350ef---64991797706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/mezavifetugaxetajasururad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bdf247f9a18f2a95b593e3ca1a2b691/76459466726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0n86m8p210uv28cktj3d2953j/buliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/83707302010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/66585778103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/8518332888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e7813093b---42969738339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4507990c5adeaec254ceb82b3bf0241d/nunasabupizototivugati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477e063b99---vajemimefakadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059fd3fbf2536eb9bd530982e32f2599/bexirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1365a1e196---gazonadijuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/72389282844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b4ca36848863b0b98c52610954cb23/98886573308.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD649 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 12d5acc75f332ced81bb91d904e62d3df6463953f43831420f32d2cfc4b2c1a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE902 22592 bytes
SHA-256: 9eae35579d8e7bde05a46444192c9f09f01cab096748e7098c2bc5b4eee427ff