Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46dfdaa85b115403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 35af28655bfdc80a2e87e981a1529331 SHA-1: d1deb288ec1b5437b2044cd7813abbbd9464d40b SHA-256: 46dfdaa85b115403fb3bb453b0cf91d3f92a2d39953b085d1b839f684c5396fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs are likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/34492841421.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/daguvizawifebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/kunikijile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210529221638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfe8mi2no56736h2qpl4atpvqp/18812730601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhk01sck7s2a7bdjr6om2u5hng/37421648209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/61759656326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdf8aa5c2e---62333634119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/51817092562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3c95d24f52eabf8cd3b1b354768ff8/zajexejeparola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/folosefomogamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bro1i1auvm99r2hf94o1p4lqd4/dibokutisinegipini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64cb71aab96441e064a92fc7f8265be6/58365663484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///82482129612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efae5d9d1043bfe7b06a0d232b384cd7/kuwopedokalusowefopexadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5a57a22b---delufituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcq624d5371seolq5f79r7kq43/68110705128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12d803dd2d---84820802732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/indmitss8he0fedr5bp77d9fm4/fejubexuxexanedujipagavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/32892702641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05aca74957---7172529316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42634141a24cfb198bdf6f1f3577cb68/37736396521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcbu2eci0he010tidsv9j25as7/lotepirakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a9e59a41b---87801366198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/90829173549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=layers+are+not+showing+in+photoshopPDF 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_off0000efc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DE 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 03d7fd11cb432b68ac6ec1b6e132c5edef2a094c1f9c762d6df3a550f12c4a53
font_02_sfnt_off00012047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12047 17116 bytes
SHA-256: e0e47327afcaa52b8d9cded8503b8c951bed8e229447fef408f6ea6661c6c663