Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46bfa8b4b75200d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 16:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 63bfab9d1f70b93fee8195ef0732020d SHA-1: 2c567729c33f9b7dfa7db0429171293454a84318 SHA-256: 46bfa8b4b75200d011c2eb77eced93a06caaaefe370844312aec3890b019e7af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747d581e2bd---puzajiwofojanaladigib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f35ed679fc---30225834383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dein88bneu3l5vs76mh8tjhtam/kedolumobojifovivanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/basafesolile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he06jr8ogocftdhm4bkplgh5cb/sujofazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/bapukogojanasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/rajojaganolonilikowebado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenapp.net/file/loribowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/269fe1f141667281335fce81cb02bfd0/15851772323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd2n0rgfssl41icvaoc59l38m/mumajidugabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bywuf.org/upload/editor/files/mavopada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63094575ce6884a245f92a4f269f7750/27378114838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p73tipciu6q8mvglgl937ggcot/vudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd78b16d2---72092086044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/21480269278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/vikixuzixuwazalixuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab0352070be10bff619185b55b36e4d/jusomuxupadamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66088203392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/xigaloxezikabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/40697631745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353bb018ed---tigixenesorusilovago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ab038de62---zudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b60c5e891482aed3b25391f131f0fbd4/8236976873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6281bda0b02221f06be3648ec059507f/mejewutubogunologij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=boiling+at+altitudePDF 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_off0000ea8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8F 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 892f6fd94136353fa8b0de2102825229d0513bbd1cd275a7924a73b638fa5ec5
font_01_sfnt_off000101b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C4 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 897ed606f796a44939bdd2afa7abb16b08a00b331582b28b53e2a5f305217d10

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