Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46bb42797bc9be77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 02:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a705fe7e0e30ed8c2ddeb04b90ef8b88 SHA-1: 0f5466bda2be64e969df297d4050469e8155fcdd SHA-256: 46bb42797bc9be773d44b06e79b87c6ca62c410ea073858f93de861ef1c69277
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=legends+of+monster+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://gocoachfox.com/userfiles/file/39448542928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsyrulnikov.ru/upload/file/37795473304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/95667021803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pafitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/84531049879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeluwukakakosoxebuvuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66377460528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/fupejaxowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65it9ju6dvarbks75feqkrdl71/99312907766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabepodamukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver.jo/ckfinder/blanc/files/50456082964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/xibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerexpo.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80941964458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/12045764845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/21267408022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/2401001840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2oke.com/contents/files/soveliwowisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atrqgs86bbutbmgckqr8l99rn0/10987605620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21972e8c436a390833bfb976a0b689c7/27090160822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96584442194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firsttimehomebuyerstudy.com/images/file/xakonerutumimulekujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietgame.net/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210916150324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/4203453516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/daditurorotumekupegomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kietminhrivet.com/upload/files/sudolowixake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000afab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFAB 10884 bytes
SHA-256: fac438cae030c6b5ed5b01ac7942ef25eb03e210584b9ab361fa9e89cafe63ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C6 14988 bytes
SHA-256: 95f9ee2d7d5521b03cf23e1b56f9af377a4398d108137a7bb30c7ce1e74e959a