Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46ea0177778e14f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:56:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 85d2c5fa88e5240d4ed2bf83f82b1d90 SHA-1: 08207f1a617e1ba1e6c91b43882dad28f6f1f851 SHA-256: 46ea0177778e14f1d1fa5002e8889c219b031a049726ed26debcf5d88e6bef69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites through a deceptive document.

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 http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/56275557186.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/78280562504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albertoangel.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewatovopimizovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugekefojadodoletewobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376e526c543---bafuxuxefidatalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/83522858107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://illinoisfiscalpolicycouncil.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/laxulezukenoritaledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6addafe22ce795450f45af8f78a949f6/xupozuraguwexulebola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe8e9e92048fb205ef02e848ce0bced/68500126700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_E69BAB9024C19EBD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/jisixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/romapajajemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/gegimewerexoraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/51517324352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd1.thadv.com/upload/files/1651838343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357b84da450---dasibapokezosixesatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/59601087155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613057d9d46fc---xojegimomomunaxozosokifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/razar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconltd.pl/cache/file/saselodiraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfobchod.cz/foto/Image/file/55650376413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoilhpnqbthanh.com/upload/file/12810610114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134266ce10be---zekapobuwodiloxugofogizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/11867602865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=present+simple+exercises+questions+pdfPDF 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_off0000bd02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD514 16292 bytes
SHA-256: 75d2fb89d375e0f3fba4dabd28436b8a0754116fe5475b90962ab88f43dc018e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fedd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDD 10968 bytes
SHA-256: f40bcff1e9368abe44b2ae03c4bfdf5f84b0caf0047bd02b5e72a922c78b71cd