Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46adde5e523bf236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:56:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d7b41e5d83be7e3a4ff985f2bc632dfa SHA-1: 01a4988481086ac1cf1348dab2ce16e234e332ce SHA-256: 46adde5e523bf236e2aea5ca825f156da5726a69da9eaec137fe08344e3723d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites using the Formcraft plugin. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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 https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acae35cc024---ditodovatosedifeno.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zavoninabakenolizirubod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc385395122---94028409167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf82620bb8c---rudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/90007956603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9450be242637db00415caefe4f51712d/falozinixegowixemorodiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/55132082524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/mireju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/94201047588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/dabemikefaliwaxemezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/73702241552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd36dqar95p57t1pu96kub3i9m/vuvizakido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084725380727---24326449634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01479e76e9c238253b6cb02ea499bb6/7303378035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8297314ba94caf5fefc14a42f467a96e/80700363169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/wewusiwitagewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607586cba06df---2324454273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/80123689049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7468e40e072625add569996cfcfeb79/72662432486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6k2gpbcccfrk9gp59mlofjtav/90053026165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072523fa77cb---55554004870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceab712b5e---87555409604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najarshi.com/basefile/najarshicom/files/gividijixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/45606843253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbconsulting112.ca/userfiles/files/vufulawolasotowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607583d52c276---44587302077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/92304221480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+pet+foxes+eatPDF 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_off0001144d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 10348 bytes
SHA-256: d337c11ca534c91a68dadbcb74518ea53f399c32abf8f4aa8c0df008587bb8b0
font_01_sfnt_off00012be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F5 17120 bytes
SHA-256: a1633a3a187a8ad15b822216dc50a0cfe88b12b79b3a155a116708c3cf69e6fd