Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46acf7247a8a26bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 196f149d548f1b293c5629674a128e60 SHA-1: 29a3b17159bfea030478a24807bce6f0ca2341ce SHA-256: 46acf7247a8a26bf34704f0eee2a4682b3906c747c731cfaed1fade6566660ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing pages or malware download sites, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=business+ethics+and+corporate+social+responsibility
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/9432108092.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ae65dafc8---13155482227.pdf
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/47255920234.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079001c12ed1---vaxadazatujogenirewidusu.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d211f013109e47562a1562aa846ecc/mimogonuluzegebajewedona.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c5785080---34201476935.pdf
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/busex.pdf
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/lenejetutetobaloxob.pdf
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073917324191---fubuladigupojetunonuv.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/nifalorokuvu.pdf
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/tujiponamixovudawuna.pdf
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826b739bf7f---vilexixikodibegixetize.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088204797ecc---66667071064.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c33b27547a---rosuriladat.pdf
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/25752912079.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2dc4c96007---dukologakipegexade.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be63c7a728de27980196ef724e06ff9c/54858997796.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780918310a6---gekikogepiwam.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c02b68ad3f97428d2306b73eade8ba/78108266990.pdf
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/76684385343.pdf
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/zofamaluritag.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608013d8e0c88---13416080421.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809b35c662c---72544801025.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f105.bin
a47872ced667f57a2074da200da27d260082cdbe6878d6dd167b39b37683ff4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF105 17176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011db6.bin
8d126cc7b46f44b10126f569c0ce77776053db1214062d1946e8b504ac7bb75a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB6 11016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001371a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371A 16792 bytes