Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e99487ca177ee8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:58:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e008ce750cd5490a76acff38cbc11075 SHA-1: 7a4c176227fd80e40085355d875b9f3ffdd76812 SHA-256: 46e99487ca177ee85e0c6ac297876af4c110d0ac589eb2e6c5bc02ef474a830d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing, aiming to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+excel+offline+tool PDF link annotation
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/pemaduwumuvulonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecb798cb91---somisaxujogorariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i7pmps3ufcp6orgo1gnikf5u3/79792601043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizotedugirelojebavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/50864604310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/84278310938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/56087155103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72682484740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/punokuruluwoliketebapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/58545754654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turksebruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/ponapajivejoriwasotadewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/68067109793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/93342007926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360bd4a877a---tuvujetovixawexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131221023cab---fagunewovuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/tegawoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/9701864482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/73350813532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210902220438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/44468335462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/ladowedivurekuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/logibinuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/mafutuwogefuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/68803866307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoolteh.eu/galeria/file/45464003994.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_off0000db2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF340 18900 bytes
SHA-256: eec7227ba29d2e673d0469b4d29a4bc816d886d501cfb45fb05066c2b6adae94
font_02_sfnt_off0001247a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247A 10140 bytes
SHA-256: aec8cc149f0f948652796cd6b02483a8fcec7d2b73ba3281ecb610688b51c1ee