Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46794415998a33d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-05-30 22:23:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1f5027aa6adddb8bf00bae9762fa99f1 SHA-1: 4b344723e8a3edbe706de3b041b6b657b5c8ea29 SHA-256: 46794415998a33d44a7efe55b09eeb3276f3f8dd112e1fda163d9a566d4b9c33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/86241622930.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0428237a7fbb21f9b11cc53c30a25150/9810768104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb6557b24bfc1204ed3380e74e0cf7d/37505349527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwodotidosuninozesaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078228750a33---vejewipolubuxerob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qauskic9q1ndarokongvp2q9c/gasinixawadixomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6fb660dd1---surumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15f278d53---debimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/76745628907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1fbde4326f---gajaliruvano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prtggp4dhcpi2826p5113dqc30/wuboxovizenobedovexupidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuac5a6atqj8mm4147qd918o22/vilulidizesenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/74407513274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/pobupiziwiradopivovupiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa685481389---buwelotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87b0103f8b---26061104728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=comida+criolla+recetas+peruanasPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD288 3056 bytes
SHA-256: 69af8e147acd4ce2e7a00d68a854e0936fd434da26172ca330cef86f12173931
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7F 5124 bytes
SHA-256: e902a6950523671675053d2eb68baa646c29b4f8f3220c25d5de3e4515efd40c
font_02_sfnt_off0000eebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBF 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 4910d0177da9f60ecc92c13a34fae8c5c38ffafb9e4e22a3c3fd987548b79157
font_03_sfnt_off0000fea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA0 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 49ac7067ccb54c3642f7d893c776cb1e6ff83850cae3c3c40e3b78967b479cfb
font_04_sfnt_off000123b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B6 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd55fee6c52bbab32ed20b0b25846bff407090075fa0ab45dc9808449a8eeb0