Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46c75dfd8bb06b96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 23:46:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5d53c1300cd3a36e3dfe47b64f17cc0d SHA-1: b6d4908f60d94e22e696da20a86af1f7f6e80de0 SHA-256: 46c75dfd8bb06b96005fa0dbd963e1aac8c489adb69194913e8e844aa15aa325
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these compromised sites, which likely serve as a distribution point for further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868c269470e---pupidagokovusevel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ecu0he1n2l9civ82jbhpffoau/jekoxudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d821b76704db5d03cdaa0653d85e36bf/jenojozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/xufunirubotijujovitegusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d15odqg3bf5bugali908kp0l91/20628214527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef8d8555ae---tebigado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5dfjjm2bprrfofkun08flc6pp/xetuzema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085403e76962---748713332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c236aa68b36---dobusipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021070617123773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93022c19402d29466fd11c0d78cb267c/56572553276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05d3r20kgr647rar6mvi7vvup1/fatasepabodapebuxijowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/nezenowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252e6d88d32fcd7cdfb8ce851c21c780/89369359141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knloe7iu8d1dp7m303v33tbar2/41799756908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db02999a6b---12009460917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/wurugimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/62133581766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidinusulozukowatuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f81cd06f662c577c90949caaadd4b4a/xozinetugolimawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d4a7a199a---21047511361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9ed9db222---1454769753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021050109195738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/97745166278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=exploded+diper+sheet+music+freePDF 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_off0000d5d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D8 17172 bytes
SHA-256: c3435d3a7b4ca3a1c52cb5ad141c73530dec14c595fc7f926313076da50b37d2
font_01_sfnt_off0001020c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 34b70b6d7d2458a949b9c5a40f1de82a08eccece80192d5be27f2cde208c2d75
font_02_sfnt_off00011af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1