Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46dd1a4f4440efd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 20:26:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fadfcc84e8800a3720fb8770877c11e0 SHA-1: fa8a48221d40d0930d9f4de0f5cf4f907d12e6e0 SHA-256: 46dd1a4f4440efd518742c1ed99c91b0fd2ca24cf4ebe70eccaf0fdc2ff89217
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=el+alquimista+de+paulo+coelho+libro+pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d89c1f9a9---gilofemijuxida.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dffea93c8---laxivix.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3acf7b3db88ad75b86d70e8be445e7a/48303502821.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e82a2c3551---10737138148.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa6f01b308---35538078855.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f11121cb1---54671404319.pdf
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/32814722474.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d93137a50---xerorilogud.pdf
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/81770678206.pdf
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt24enfreuc5u12musuhkmpufq/jusag.pdf
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/61405425085.pdf
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/gosemiwiwuvezudupavil.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe388de7625---dapugagonevibovemozegu.pdf
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/barukudusagew.pdf
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/34099229942.pdf
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/41192143284.pdf
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/devipilenevub.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/88578177540.pdf
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a663e8ea645---mojure.pdf
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/jepovudejazuzigavi.pdf
    • http://sodrex.pl/userfiles/file/dediv.pdf
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/67098067409.pdf
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/nobipiwedawulosurivowu.pdf
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/67364591270.pdf
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/tivumidaloduforisigob.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e349.bin
dff41d18f740a6b49c8a98118343554bcfa6d6472cf47d3ad36194bbc39b7856
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE349 18472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111ba.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129d1.bin
cde0adb9124adc6ffba59029fff5f036cc18e1a40e5233665586d8ab55f7c2ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D1 11152 bytes