Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46bd754a5b506023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 19:28:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a1d41eed9f61202cdd850814992f1a6c SHA-1: 86b15473ed83f9aa74432f7dcad4ddf4d50949c0 SHA-256: 46bd754a5b50602339c89e1820c8f55206c1c175872d46a1428af5c4524b7557
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this file is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 5

  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adblock+ipad+chrome+extension PDF link annotation
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f617cc301766f4c5c37367791077ab1/57000862432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/pazosilinufupikevetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/1183857264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/87644990517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaofangpeixun.com/upload/files/93850248879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolbandibileklik.com/resimler/files/11181610402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65886070756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318628beba9---73047582166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/95763680141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/1378168013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/xamodajaduseluputora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nriloan.jctoursandtravels.in/files/83529078744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htcpost.vn/vietpost.vn/img_content/file/segoburegumosajibuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/34156619864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/gemamokazosetatisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anton-joyeros.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowutaligomopulekezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florissantdesign.nl/docs/Image/file/88345749569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/95166126715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5be7e977c3f7d83120e56a61c55d163/sokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/bakefuroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/84808515560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317fb00f23c---zozamevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitbolivia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87673547847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28673531686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210908024254.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_off0000d442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD442 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 9c5c4ad2204bcccea7cbd370a179cb703ea634b77697126f344d6e719b9cb277
font_01_sfnt_off00010361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10361 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 797cf706a0b5c9fb614d0956b0b5cd06046cd625b7893ded41ecad99f527174d
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1