Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46b7fc239acf19e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 15:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8e5d69e66e8e6239dc951ecf521e4b32 SHA-1: 98e8b4987e9d5fdf9f185cd0e9d20f912e8abe2e SHA-256: 46b7fc239acf19e0bcd1d96e04dfd751463b8ed40d748c7246564a9d5031610c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a social-engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous suspicious URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://clingac.com/d/files/xuganufoduwas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/kegadevixupebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/97876724633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/39105037969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/puzuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9790c9b967---befitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ab7844367---27817478908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/18029259515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/tibonizegebugila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/99084029005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scarpatti.com/files/98823463114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/55517867973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/dodabopuwonapusasedakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///pozotumuvumupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02dc21f10f68914bd5d7684f2aad2950/vifapoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d58e0e71ed87a6586b0e9192d16cbb/vekepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/zigomegalokuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c75d6ef3e79b9d2a85f710151262290/xisexumipedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7gr6utp8o4a0decpmka7b0uj7/75863643061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/54641684645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/2021731138117731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacnsuaa.com/clients/4/49/49ab1acc6c62b5a39110d621a19f71c0/File/fikitomabutukemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/52927295328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4900c824324d08d9693f6a8158650b/vakujiratefejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ublock+origin+anti+adblock+listPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001032b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032B 22348 bytes
SHA-256: 78778016f69fb211f423a17542dab2def02c3c585beecb049b9012861cfc2c03
font_01_sfnt_off00013bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BD8 10652 bytes
SHA-256: c81a332e0345729adc937f285acfd14e579d481903b17b981c25d030dcc53c3d
font_02_sfnt_off0001541d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1541D 16132 bytes
SHA-256: eb83fb48a2f60ac59fad768156047f025764cad4052c8f34695a9c8dd2456ad8
font_03_sfnt_off0001698e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1698E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1