Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46c81ae1dec7f341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3c8589f527fb0b472b400b788979c513 SHA-1: fadc013054d97f5f3f936417258e647930c4e2c5 SHA-256: 46c81ae1dec7f341a32d6db5a7271d3d0ffbe9ee82afae87f3c36c72d0be1c53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a Google Feedproxy URL with a 'download gta grand theft auto apk' term indicates a lure for potentially unwanted software or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m02bmfkmdd4hhukollu9pbkvd2/90849560652.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/52279468298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/65096638845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/tazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021090712174273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/xevafikeledezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613067ea9dabd---93716971468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/rekepesikamezedepidazexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/dugogati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904183407490331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/xoxenuwizuvinifimuninobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangmailogistics.com/asset/site/files/mumiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsm01ubkbr9uatob8c6tbg7kfg/bowofojatijanabobotedoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/butakagobogifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210911045324745048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2461889307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadijamudivefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azco.friend-match.com/upload/files/4506272281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/9280120696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.vegner.com/userfiles/files/20210907_153259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613327cd31821---nevefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/82577201112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/32664751280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+grand+theft+auto+apkPDF 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_off0000dccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCF 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 44976d21935f1d198c4ad452dd1fbc9cef849263d15e58067b64b321fc16fbe5
font_01_sfnt_off000109cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CC 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 890b97a9c7e7afc005505919fddb2d64179068073bde09b7851aa84715742ce0
font_02_sfnt_off0001227a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1