Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46453417ce7bbfd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bc83cb6c68daf19d49e15f06b4678705 SHA-1: f657f8360f473e950043d5db31e77679d82dc27b SHA-256: 46453417ce7bbfd4c5165c7d6b4b9660bfaa25a2efff14ef45bcfe44d073aa88
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure suggesting the user install a browser extension or update to view content, a common social-engineering tactic. It also includes numerous links to external sites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations, which likely serve as downloaders or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=galaxy+s10e+vs+iphone+12+mini PDF link annotation
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/91485991705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/2391837677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/zezomenisavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/54393365320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/42744375031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613821c8b9508---92828649956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e08e4b2e4---55586144436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90569928781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuklearmedizin-amro.de/userfiles/file/47748284657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscojaviermoreno.com/DocsCKeditor/files/67062854452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/fetutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/40271844120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wideanglepackaging.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12689261731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-jlclgg6a3e.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/2182418794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fb974e2df---moveditesazakegopagused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominoliberec.eu/images/file/files/nepuxazenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73381857204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/39207449061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/liramajibiluvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/xaxagukanugeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/jopowajixadogubazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e0da0bb6b---7143836428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/duzininigudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/rered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-caster.com/userfiles/file/3496174545.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_off0000b3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE6 16812 bytes
SHA-256: bb66d31b61751ee725cd997edee7d4a7192d40b75124011f307b2c02c42a57a3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f73e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73E 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 98fc6b5262c3756507ea8c5ff6c7480c0b0bdb59ecba23f82a25f66b3947199e