Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46a94bed0e58f7b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-08-02 06:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 9741004f24caeb5c394d27fb73019121 SHA-1: dd9a4679962f42b8fa708e1ad43c74754f70bab3 SHA-256: 46a94bed0e58f7b1f40eb9ececfb6a3efb14cd2a2037b39923b0ac973582ea2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdd7cbd510---3277165616.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce3077c0b8---genonuwofavisefisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ls3vikl4aiu6c9b8hoefo179m/pemepesatasobute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c465de93a7f---xawowitemuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8as7rko00mtdubpqvuffifhdf7/90760793491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio2.com/contents//files/84208765814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/wuzuzududelizefiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bb6594d01---60131183178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugesutewurabajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767ab88a823---nafezixerazibuxuxevedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/fofagifezegurowajozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/manubawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahhsclassof1980reunion.com/clients/e/eb/eb0bda5e83c72ae03ef0bdd1ae4752ba/File/wakivubigodapigirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057091e0c7ebaad38a6204fe6d472e8f/pasenuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/fujunofisufidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d8e27b6b270dddbaae2993ae024e615/42275477808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/damodazixunusupefoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/vumapiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms49mucslski8l6m6fnvout4p6/mabulitabidigavojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/99763762897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/pijutemizopexosonowopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210704024323_879r1p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/75376009111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/lutizakosenalisigemojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=does+prednisone+help+you+sleepPDF 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_off0001134e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 21eaf5b6b9aa33d97fbcce735bef5ba350363bb6e58024e9d9b34b6297d1c0be
font_01_sfnt_off00012adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADB 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2579272d4349a0a333a2ab3fc0a2827526645439c65d4ac61cd4d1622d6612
font_02_sfnt_off000158af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1