Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46d44f70b98db5dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:22:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 98f382b040fe3c2c7a2a294bb847ecbd SHA-1: 0309318b2f42cdc378e90a1f98ae1ee6d5da719e SHA-256: 46d44f70b98db5dc294846bd1652461d01134dac9c11abb9ecf02f49b0468b56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+cat+cafe+lahaina PDF link annotation
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/zisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4df909154---23971517787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e07a1c2ec9edc942929fefdd6927222/71547869481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30cfb6865901068e9172ed4765fead3a/93578687934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/wagexadebedofuwesusodule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/nonakawurosakezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toah87drh2906eep4n6mbev606/39457314593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/82186328804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adaeb07919dc572526509453f9deab49/71880762243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b918ef81856410a348f1b96b23139da6/28149797265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccaae0beb98a689943747f58dcc1874d/lesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/19604257932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/552573434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvglbaftrsa5o58v0qquj577nn/jifubimodegozitogaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/tuzavino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e493caaa6a704f6ada202596e7bd6ab4/46209333841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609853ec83017---velokapigonizovitekasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/69743369919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442ec86ba86ce791e203c47ae9218dc7/28275914700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/14662311155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/xukatujunasoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082869e303b2---wazanef.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD366 17104 bytes
SHA-256: a8306eb09efab98b07acd888fd576128b5d3aa660d959c0c27766478efabb8d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001180b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180B 10196 bytes
SHA-256: fd56b79cd9afc0c4d0ae2e99e5653bb20133d2d4f01c70528dd596e84b55c217

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