Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46daad4309d9e47e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d14dfd7ffccf2680d471d325c0a1d506 SHA-1: d20622e547943569efbb99a7358ad3d5aeffca54 SHA-256: 46daad4309d9e47e53d59b0c136b5bbaf9fb17fbc7c587663cc9d824938ea42e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm and a lure for password-protected archives, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. The numerous extracted URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggest an attempt to distribute a payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://promise-land.com/upload/file/zixunisutukatugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/digisegatomalare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7361a9d9d81f6bab23666875bc895109/kakizavozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40f96e70f3---15695316909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839adf3307---95981591989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49145222fed7b87230536e499857854b/xibulexefemusilekufuturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/87312860266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/12285227563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/safefitetonukariladebelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/45054205194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26f0c91915428ebfa5a6334db34bd1aa/23466870402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610abbd523254---26071736313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/15501895850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldo.eu/contenuti/upload/file/giwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/vezelewipizemepobufavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/46045681706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf20b240bac---11937146012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrfd7ehuit15lrbff0ingjfqf5/doles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/19516062247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/53962571278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160959c5dabd13---woner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubiriwudopatajafebivoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/70757895719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fusionner+2+fichier+pdf+macPDF 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_off0000d6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C4 18716 bytes
SHA-256: 614310e40ea6fb3da10fdd55b332b0aa5cef8621253020d7356c5a1b29945a3b
font_01_sfnt_off000105f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0A 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 8e61a6f21bd61b6d0ab184f0300acdfebf030ba7efc699a1873400e0b49518ed