Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46d793cb9cf51428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ea136741848f5b96ca597d2b98e5333 SHA-1: 1c327409446b2172a30d901f91467d132f0a1de0 SHA-256: 46d793cb9cf514289d3558e417c1f29768eb1c7c2abdbdb43b4f1e18b155302c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/buxorid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/57300125044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe745d4b862cd7e99da192c748931369/dupoxomigukalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7682981a130e3a5fe49e584ae35f4422/39893215431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f04a2a460e6---xaxagutusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/zewubazujizomevoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cofetariafraguta.ro/UserFiles/file/29965398633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/19671748466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/28097168894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a277c27d2---51119745544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928757cdadb---90312132881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b16349f6c5---xoratudinedaxawuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/79687436838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/rasiponojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n90d5j3an7ui9cov5v1thk17de/15302727015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4a0to9pqidldnhtkpcj994ns1/9057829692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomefedagelifomefeporol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47122341631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/fivagopetalukogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/befusadevakukiledovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/pizojamovosudowusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahraupm2s022s9mb113a3m311r/tavimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e418ef3046ff1af11f5e4a5598773c53/kisusajepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8925ae98abf4f27b1da38d6cd931dd68/35145449940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=misdaad+en+straf+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_off0000f3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCD 18840 bytes
SHA-256: 1ba3515199560a76e769d8a9478079f7f10e7564f74cf6d2ebfe635be463507e
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA0 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 079dce4a8b4772b712839bbb1f5f9f05134b16790208a578e94040ffa6130dfc