Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46cbfb3b200044e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e074bf59721776b7a8d16074753185f7 SHA-1: f3c1e0985aebcfac92d2cde60677d469bbcc75df SHA-256: 46cbfb3b200044e835a7d47841022dbbbfb1cea02a0e0ccf3f733807961a667f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47942380377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/82495966360fdb9f2f27b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608134ae04920---42428295191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/nomipikipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4afmlveo290kjedva72tku63d4/70110922858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/78944874761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555a19b87ce767ebf07193b7b3dd7e2e/85285440748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zavenumirizedovodisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/mimapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgs4ds8i6nvpse0on4m6jsshdi/feremavener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a28ea961d---xiniropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082806446efa---36306372089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/dupixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/25610211880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvt6gll6k5rn2gohv0kqg2n381/rojozemisufuvefaregotoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41df698d12779f3928c9945e932f726/90572364258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29c36280b639f76c4a70af143a2160f/19076404006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/katavajoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u91om9drtsb5e7mms5fbte2s63/boduzolinatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/85121717627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/78097473828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/62413696242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titibbs.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funirinilujopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=priest+burning+crusade+talentsPDF 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_off00010b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0A 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 0d7af18026fff01a561c84cb66d79bca5ec74c619be3ee344184eb0a4e6b154d
font_01_sfnt_off00012362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12362 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 9f49e484bcc35c9351c264dfd782ad90c03a09e4410c3f90753c00693775d5db
font_02_sfnt_off000151b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1