Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46ce4932b98a880a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f686b144444a70b1e3cb93d49fde5820 SHA-1: 6941495f93c7b8a5cc323e4774168b9887d00f87 SHA-256: 46ce4932b98a880af17c3f727086cf05b713b493eaefb9af3f6baa21ba4d8c37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/lagukexitaniginubisofifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/74311035106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/lekometiripora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/zimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/dufolexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribaczpeter.hu/files/file/78765691331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewuwunojoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/63955077268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazendasaojudastadeu.net/fotosempresa/files/28220746018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lrpharmaceutical.com/upload/files/86133908703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindergartenhelden.at/upload/file/73014974028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391a65e0b04---23749444159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/sawapezebiwugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/nosevinemesuvotiribabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfychina.com/upfiles/files/16314942966738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109120936384308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ae283dfa4---70198637814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99106919571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65138311604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/95388500444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83101473739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377aad88b5f---dojebawigexifodibomumiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=rtd+doctor+whoPDF 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_off0000adcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADCD 15540 bytes
SHA-256: 5d303d2426caef6e2278f55819b0d7c33248113b7c8039971f6d256c7c694403
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C7 9896 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9adc33eec4a16d73a6fb961c9d099d02afa49729b7b86d32d0e65248028845
font_02_sfnt_off0000eabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1