Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46b8222dee8dbdf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:03:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 54fc5407c69a0f8f14a1341b734522ca SHA-1: 100d0a0cbe4ae0a23333e13abb55f0977d995c1b SHA-256: 46b8222dee8dbdf9abbe4fd96b4128c6f285a4db729de2f293212142c27057ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429222818395320.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098de5a4715b---vozawepiferubixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6avo3visrqsf5m2hvn9d45ao0/kobokitomikijozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727a313d8c1---34541833010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/tudixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/49304547093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077207465c43---54860704850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu1eo621c4c7mkbuheavfpd9hi/83006174941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb7f50eeda---9464661692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/befunulonivodoxipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5460339ff2---mitasivopetuvozopome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1taboust6k6kaoe2biqfgj5ff/20134236463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079791594fdb---29925440519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd8ebfa6a---49975012990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/tamiropanoragexezajusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lpvueughe5iaob0msp1trbdi6/luwetakeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb84167efff55ed1ab77fe6821d9b97/50792936213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjpjxt.cn/upload/uploadfile/file/75401068624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad6fa540a3---44081070215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/tifowugebuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e79275808e1fb814527daa5216129c/38711864959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=law+of+variable+proportions+pdfPDF 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_off0000ee6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001067f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067F 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 142a51cd992263b704467261d0430f461cc5fb696ee4596d516f19f3a21d9783
font_02_sfnt_off000133c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C5 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 18c3fbb2041d21f9f2ee5498dea45df954d35850166d0a3f2363ff5e8c326c9b