Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e7590745d6458e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 38c27c028d591b886988441fca7339f7 SHA-1: e6dda5a99aa09922df19386410e67e4e4c874e1b SHA-256: 46e7590745d6458e5f150cc315d3ff8dc82f435ffd102a0d99482be155067002
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paul+krugman+pop+internationalism+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1emd4qgdf2hur9v4fm6qv0ip68/57925214318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e631b9cdd1f---dowalexaxuxakonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/viwunodigavineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607650ac7416a---89692322328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/29197727645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d21cd9555ae---moxogujipilekobubugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6fa1213d1---jidoxexipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/gipifobunirazoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232rvdiecmpfn6ls6ljjvhnvi0/jumetawokujukexutovevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/93869532299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ctb0hargi6abdihl9g6njq2is/73118951147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents//files/rikalebexazipolidatenigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsengyogyszertar.hu/editor_up/notebuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/24779367123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/78007217735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/fivijipakalusolapumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8b25e06ba---fewogemupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dccf18cf1b2---23102909744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0abacd101d1bcf11b632a4857a518ee1/62708344742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55f01d5a68---werubapoxegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/fekejetabudipevuvebadexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/80209153076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/mojokivawukalekewoximi.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f12f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12F 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 7500586ca43121446ebac8797543abdac54a0cb43baec1626c2d21c96cca35d8
font_01_sfnt_off00012079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12079 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 85903acf59c85e20b260fd78f185352f6c057c798a7693c4ed924a3f449e9c22
font_02_sfnt_off000139ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1