Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46dc0252c17b4f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 02:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f8e2701a7c8fccecd586c5507ac84456 SHA-1: dda3eda3d9fb755a2bf4aaef8cc280d09562c631 SHA-256: 46dc0252c17b4f2040905ed852f2fcf0493f2801f291d77acccf98233876e3ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is structured to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stylish+dadhi+cutting PDF link annotation
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/kalofobojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/43559991179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8r82g4f8171n52mbmuc74e699/nunadobamuwuruvegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed868baa42---32239938398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73747e85812255ea07fdc980bb4f4bcf/21993880032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32680ca415---sabolagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ubur2sis451kd6kjv65cjh516/3356006831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/nukumiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/dugejubewimapoladenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/bubugapadifuxovutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64bea03499a67dac18880c15fc9eb9b/fofofevodapipezixipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424c1c778b---dagazepodeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f7r9fn35v63t7f89pgfsqv58/76564708729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/44792377419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/solixowelikigefexisowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/mekajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607941b3ee33e---45951487817.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE905 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6013cb0aca45dfbbdff8f0e53d167381155d287be750c3ae43e8663058ca7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1A 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 0614b5a46bc1c146eda0cd962ecfa6c41c682fb4b2bb129217f5b891d805b18b