Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46907be41cbebab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:08:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad13188cddcdf81fabca57605df6e07c SHA-1: f91e143f6b449a0d11bdf9c78e5fb5f3aba42a0c SHA-256: 46907be41cbebab2312aac90458269ba530c6b0a39a247cf3a7d6ad50c0d0877
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/56071265507.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/72762537317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migidiwovakelakifitixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e601a72d2---wilofikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents//files/zarafigakewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b0ccae2e2a307189027cb198eeca404/66648153433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ff50b2738---32609501496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92169f40a2012894ca67855c6ff0877e/zunamesazutegewetozoxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6scdfk998l8ntpj4niapa4od87/25345468743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/49542674669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ixemelomopevewanovofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774d60f93a7947b2bf7810f8d1607682/63665650051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7714f833c392c915110892b291dc8e78/36316184790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137961f0064b11f3c386f56ffafa0e3d/93841515253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bke6aekdmrc9c746aajcmt87l5/41601853161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/23241258675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609203b6ef936---89399902647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/15034577860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/8577491004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c101a95307c759fa28a3f185cf16dd7e/84578537165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba90fec6983---kufivade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/15211719627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/kamuwemokijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tktravel.shop/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_8025E8449017E017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fdddc8449---rusasomekepona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+develop+a+procedure+manualPDF 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_off0000f038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF038 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 140cd5fe3b3ec44e4f8c45c28f3326a1ea3e126d80e1b7d82f892a19a037c118
font_01_sfnt_off000119b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B8 10656 bytes
SHA-256: e90d2fc030ad03de44bdceb80b7c34f293721d94bbc372648f6bd1cb7d99be07
font_02_sfnt_off00013223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13223 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1