Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e60774077968cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:52:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 95da4fa50c3d21788743386c0ec06344 SHA-1: f25d0d3ca4ee710be008cd5ed771f270a1efcd98 SHA-256: 46e60774077968cdfba38f27e817f89a34101ddce9400e8f0e95f006d03d3e1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of exploitation for client execution, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://jlssj.com/qianzi/upfile/case_editor/file/gatopuwogufixonazexosopem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/wiposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.si/upload/80884333867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/fetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf2763bab9bb9be05b0e182e27fdc776/taraxoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/fuwolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/7245310051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b5e75888f---28531661306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/96339615223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.com/userfiles/file/nilerabefupaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/simaduletufepajurumavukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/9545519493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22631035130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaestehaus-am-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/guloluxumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/36187260421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/gewetenofujipeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c413de2c8---guwefoxukome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/9126466083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10712648436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109051013178688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://encino.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/77591509654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wyadonline.com/userfiles/file/95000816914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fc3e4314f---25027318738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8997446002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/32802231717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=v+graphics+gta+sa+androidPDF 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_off0000d05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05B 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 7e4544d6fded9b0c7545c46deb0dd0d701148797b9e46673d729a757466fa321
font_01_sfnt_off0000e845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE845 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10057 19924 bytes
SHA-256: cbf4e5d07063dcb3a259fe0b17a3a6b652fd0a4a4c273595e44088807662c49c