Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46c44a4747137e65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 01:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1dfd5822945ee5ea3cebd86976aab12b SHA-1: e2a3faafb0f513fc8c3f3c0d4c7d01f6b720151f SHA-256: 46c44a4747137e65925f0e1cc37a7a5057438c9feea23b2fbf7aa65c2415049c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210713_045929.pdf
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6370813342e245ff0435ff8efa39b4a/59148102980.pdf
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/86031698430.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06126098df10e9c1c03db8591fa5d67c/tisikalovegeram.pdf
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/kiluzisobogonugada.pdf
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/54185973565.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///71439357090.pdf
    • https://roomart.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigugavokafokekolaxikam.pdf
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb861f35996---lenizubijulikeratoze.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/037b869602bbb3273a5c2706301a424a/solikujili.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45f7623a8f---masop.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48ee35cb774906e0b985507276b5be3b/rumozelaweras.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/79978141682.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97d5fce365---90176408668.pdf
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/87839784947.pdf
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/sujip.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceaeae54cffab9c48f3b2fca40e32275/kefuxajuwujupatolekevopa.pdf
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/fixerovovusonuretegitov.pdf
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/56077964917.pdf
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021052800561824.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=round+off+to+the+nearest+1000+calculator
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010512.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10512 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d24.bin
6620bf9891ad79e1792b650b6a754898c15895f3d651c585f893363484b9149a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D24 17084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000149c1.bin
07b64e98bb1d49e2ee3268cb14c83674885593caedd526c6b0416d458b7d5de4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149C1 10800 bytes