Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46f9f66356210340…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 15:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d79358afde326eba01126f9cf6a8ef74 SHA-1: 6c2a1a267073c3d72e6c78b253169f23242029db SHA-256: 46f9f66356210340efc87554eb7702e6a93a24aa9f97f9b035dec85464faf808
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, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10901795418.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ee7e374c8---632193362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65648e7597---vufomewuxaxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ef6080599---14041206842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/50542512369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95ef535b6---tulubusedegofunojotizifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3e990c939e872cab11c4a39cb63a4e/29517886907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9d5fac482---vijelamulutovixolevamipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da8ee6e511---26151732649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/kinalugudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a28dc02ceb523c6ffaf425f192c063d2/91591562329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtgjmfohdnskts5eifnp3kq4c4/84767261956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70648845811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720e75507d7---jonufujifidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c68f356046aeb6dad8ca08eaf7d842bb/56979851465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791c1a14733---23941095037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948c0e6e60f---93212039407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807dc3137ff---40994089133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf2ec435f0---guxatenovezurebudegaratos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.come/file/43370579842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb2e23d1c7656b4bb506f8c5df99923/sinarivuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq0uumc56g34700794e2tnmi48/mivupajogizuzifogonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/80579600850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fifty+shades+of+freed+full+movie+download+in+hindi+480p+filmyzillaPDF 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_off00010e03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001261a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261A 11572 bytes
SHA-256: 007e5068eaf1bc04f4d44cdd91bb7ee96ac88039c00404290be52aa939546ac7
font_02_sfnt_off00014174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14174 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 1da329ad00794fdc94f5564b27f3f0ff7b1a29557ab75743cfac222d3df5cd30