Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e273843d64807f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d1757d8129c196fb5a91d68161b90b83 SHA-1: cd66ba9805ff5c84925e54178ff4f4e64ab82692 SHA-256: 46e273843d64807f43c29dea545832936377c8267d11a39568b8fa83e9fb8b79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host reinforces the link farm characteristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621910220.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1l3tvek8guj7qbr68crdeb8ls/6436467211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5bba85148f---xipavikepisuzojije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0noppgg0gnl30fpku72qmcssg4/mavileladuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb6698305---94238514118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/tijavozavemejanajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c8f4b1cd2---41111322558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088437c3ad8f---55899546034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/43443272434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbddb9bcba---26081555711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87cf504e96---51902104901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ea638d502---pejefewowegujerowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19208dc4e8---nugepakuxamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5moh5gmp6f825vvf4mq95a0e/79095776553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966356edd53---wakodopuwegogipaluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609a888b2a693---46068289030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c855ef04c9---todefujesulutojudunufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03af027f100c82d945a4c44e8b2ef92c/26890969589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/labonunuziwimikakemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/rejami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/923b77497c3982ecd6955b118e6d1427/14211989464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978872166db1f8d2e252dbe8453ec6f2/67336804539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=nihongo+day+by+dayPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAEF 13492 bytes
SHA-256: 905cd3f34593eb8b92353ddfe0048443df693e28c3f514274c3afe94b4a21036
font_01_sfnt_off00011545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11545 10216 bytes
SHA-256: c336d3872baf6f7b57ff6f8587326842ceb0841fa8241974b9332014e707bd3f
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000143e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E8 18528 bytes
SHA-256: d2919909a258938a8730bf423a56fef0b9c0ccd5ca30aeba7640cd9f4da82de8