Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46edd08e601a7fbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ab0e9b72a898b4af7cf0845d9e0d0d9d SHA-1: 8a744d26f885bafaf7fdb6a89a90c246d4384958 SHA-256: 46edd08e601a7fbb809e2fd7e32df4d20a2054cb026364cbdd2c45237c9068b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The PDF document itself contains obfuscated content, suggesting it is designed to obscure its true purpose, which is likely to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/11155183841.pdf
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/10350597630.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a5d543515---zitokelaxisizusexinuw.pdf
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/valebiwulosezugepamatop.pdf
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d125e519f76d9eb7845e484325cd877/16231461112.pdf
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a85933e60---lulukivasuvegafuzofewu.pdf
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/31381826690.pdf
    • https://rendiamovisibiliglinvisibili.org/file/64994740135.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5bf019d55---rudofuvobe.pdf
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b4165e2467615cdfb605eed1bc6c3c/11717607506.pdf
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/18180870104.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/vugazudefud.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af969d07f0833f5d5326af8ce899031f/51411652374.pdf
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/ronimezerigedesijun.pdf
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b7aa2ffdaa5d28061e58d7d3d7f37a/90086720843.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e57b865bc9---48745996771.pdf
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8400ed47fa5a95e6614d96bbaa8395f0/sizawufuxinosimo.pdf
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210501165129.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/mozalegize.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af1a7388fa7---27741970557.pdf
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/gituluxusixuruf.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/4925425669.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sample+space+of+tossing+a+coin+3+times
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eed7.bin
feb9425c5bc522908cf7d20aeb39bbd16d6f71467ea457971c8f8b41fabc7f93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED7 10968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010843.bin
ae481d363054ccb3b2006a05ff825277b9708ecac53e259c755414cc154902ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10843 18472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013931.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13931 16792 bytes