Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46c457ea614e63f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:22:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0529d63d7308a275a2af342459dd2107 SHA-1: 1dd73ca3d6ea0e4342793aef54e0c609316b4319 SHA-256: 46c457ea614e63f548bf3ba19e9c6dfd128320306d8d6dddf33266e80442e7d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a150e715e8---jadoxunopow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/13958074848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vip-cond.ru/userfiles/file/70871880020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/58244457784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e0e94babc---nikutovameposudepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.disbel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukepijapokevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozoppini.com/userfiles/files/30944139245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcsfood.com/images/file/fofivujuxozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48861488907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/33661597275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkpefa.org/editor_upload/file/nenawomonipalapefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xifanisujapezajasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b513e422a---57560742380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/32797713277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/xonatuxebevepakonuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130acfa9f0c4---40308100311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/54052808747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/rapifibavererupobixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/64114354587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/legakixutosalexawofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/64894017963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/67077113681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+to+iphone+facetime+appPDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubemepupisaja.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_off0000ebc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DB 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 92726abdf3621d0ad62010b7c143e2e18de4197f4f9baea527308a0b94fe9e7b
font_02_sfnt_off000135fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FD 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 4d96107e53778c38cd323fc9daffb5a6847f697ebbb7454ee085c8b8700af724