Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46bc12339f0804f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 96d272fea78cc86921e65aa079a812b9 SHA-1: 797084b17619ab44c9153938f90c62784a3de921 SHA-256: 46bc12339f0804f29e2ae9738bd5b72665944d91e7a7afe09ce5b92b97c19a4a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through a link farm. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for obfuscating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/93159999163.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/4115999187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/14011772600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webaprint.be/img/file/tabawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613960eaa4fd7---17925133529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73514993950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/birikoviwabosuviruzesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/41646746644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/20353432016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/64397419881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnlestari.com/visitbali/image/files/35732910001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/xobakaruturisimegodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazadamonoline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/7288316514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/bajujeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8137f2fb8---tizuribaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.zajeltel.com/itag/file/files/49953625276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28995207480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5snc4lfnqu7vu7go7mucr2t0l/wamimevajakesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c47b019a5---tifivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/fobodukuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/31016659318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+message+to+new+phonePDF 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_off0000e0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF902 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea17e9c524279c67086f611c60de130c49bacab2be71976a21bfcec5748dcca
font_02_sfnt_off0001279b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279B 10744 bytes
SHA-256: f57b65aecc83e644294a47e4d86e4f4c646a81b3c86cb1cb08e5f3e0f152f4f9