Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46d031b70cd8dc53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-14 08:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0858625cb431c6d7e5f2173962fcac6e SHA-1: 65ec818012a3ec19981b7807bb4c148650c4cf93 SHA-256: 46d031b70cd8dc5322861ee9ef221ffc636308eb2ff56816a1b673a359dcf0b2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an effort to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fabric+java+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f857f82e55b038286fa4145c4650bc2/nesinabekokodanezudewajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446ebf05347dab22fd682cc568c1081c/88925197564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50fbdf7c684814ef8db247de5a44d98/26666715648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c29f75aba---46824503754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/59524427105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b813eec32e---ligasotadukebube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ric7ppmmmpq7kvega6h4vcu7q/zovedodikotufebagalevete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd787d4aa11---mifunifemikiranawoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/bogurufudela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/woziparupufolezotuwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97g82luauriri2gk7lor53j3s6/63625114057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c49cf3b0fb822cc3a42497d7b42e9e6/podutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dcbef071a---65967458292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9412dec6a---jajadegatemigubixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c774c42112---95703998734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d74216b38b900fac594b58c654dad11/fafutedisisefajipemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3C 5048 bytes
SHA-256: e801e9cdc6ff8f7009d02af39871530d1ea7647420cfe9f9ee0c3eb0f0b7a393
font_01_sfnt_off0001005e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005E 2512 bytes
SHA-256: 8317cd94aacd0e6fd2e5c5989436fc68523f0f63f127755fdc62916090c89fd7
font_02_sfnt_off00010b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B51 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 64eb8ebcc6d643fccd3e63a08fa7d442d3d6c7946f06c1b5c76c893bcb086e9e
font_03_sfnt_off0001314e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1314E 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 8d45f5f417e74c11d54eaee7138901bb4b2498e40dea16ccf89f2c2707c13e35