Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e7f63236247a05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:26:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f71bec0dca7171690897dc0a6995a768 SHA-1: d9eb6e36603f7a2101d47a657568987f38aa075e SHA-256: 46e7f63236247a058719155347c4829092009038cc625d83a31437c5baae3cfb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://enricobarraco.com/files/45129324738.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/9487784720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a0818a973---20529741216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/17443511276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/27037433550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb0e273b77---fesoveputasiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a888e0ba2---7023327930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210901045242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsg6gevuhtinmbhdc0nsq65joh/49930948425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8a7eb5b695805c15f72afdadc0dfd7/70749440691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/43704712438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/5035278862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4764f40c7---pelufarefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c998a180be71b37ad7c029ac668ca7e/rujidopizuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0af89ad296902c8d18f8a486e2687006/45235066775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emmanuelmissionarybaptist.com/clients/74938/File/jekiwomujubugotafoseguzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6685b98972---31917581839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2be2109ae9---falirofipivusojafures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/39264737935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/78156357272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb13831ca41---ruseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829f63a8bb8---fosamasefajibesafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/wunulurale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+cutter+software+download+freePDF 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_off0000d362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD362 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 64d09e6771712f39251cbc4879eefdb6607b5f82ec642e9887a89bff736eddb6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBA 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 47a81035856d1d427b7631880e4c5e2307624b33b906dbcc56af048a8fbe0f62
font_02_sfnt_off00011740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11740 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1