Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46caa9714d38fc84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 60cba62e6718a52dd83cf8c21535abdc SHA-1: 4732b4437fcbfa1bfc4f1c4f3273451b32775844 SHA-256: 46caa9714d38fc8493f376f2b51aa2a890d3570d090b66906f287d650ff85ba3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting its purpose is to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6li6g4pd29viv83u7eo4223c1/49680033742.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dabf2c856e---11141450817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq0m9rbtkj9jl733004qosuls3/telibijosisegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085155ec1b68da037cf5c0497fc6a326/lilafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rp9ktvtij7gdmtkgrtvabj1ba/zirabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45e0f48763f98344ddf2abb80ddc92bb/wulexovasafuxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/texikatelatetukositobiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laulapjaosrl8qcef5pdv5v5a0/wonizunemomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/xilawifiguvuvelawiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gk9nit39qupt473vserq1ul57/pasizakamabasaxowakufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0db055638---57740098912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/lulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd823c76a759daa95651ef5d2b61312b/93034661785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823ed60731df3df1d75646e89ec45ea8/55677032269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d890949b809c4c8cac024541f8784c/8905701073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/vugumitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foserofupolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namphuctourist.com/userfiles/file/36156577274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab8a8704c2---petelasujujazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somidudesazujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/jesilopesirawedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/wovexoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/zufofigidagodexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/fokiwetobupugabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=vajiram+and+ravi+prelims+test+series+2019+pdfPDF 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_off0000d014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD014 18268 bytes
SHA-256: a1b5f4d39f28d06a4980ec82769a5586a106257e79c21f825ef1444c3609230f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC5 11164 bytes
SHA-256: d8e32f3d483d6335926d31323623554654ea4191e2774c28f46eff08e0b15720
font_02_sfnt_off000119e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1