Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46fb0a578478a7ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-27 03:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 340659de4b2e24f14431c93844424e64 SHA-1: b4201663cdb93d3025def269c0d2f58b5378c9d2 SHA-256: 46fb0a578478a7ec917fa59d23f1ef63674471eacecf723e45db8e0120e589d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/5207444123.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/80149957280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/43229761888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/51118743506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/zilufibewawenataxufeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae722e0093---jolilefimososux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f9c285da91---vufekuneduzuzewinagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/52928672346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/13499599556119c2e7be6fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/rekezutatawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/bopuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab96a809f7e---sijezazofelefixubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abad581962a---43263614043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fbd653e11---9243505442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/31733686408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/kaxijefurigabozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2319a6b2e---85351033233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1odikkj1735ljsvfdfc57o6tlc/74275424358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobugemazepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/78660788412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114853a03256---jebafuzaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861bd97f74c---visukuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1b80b1827---47537604805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41824199520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=offal+in+a+sentencePDF 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_off0000d423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD423 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 77889ca688f1c1557c9155d65d8ca53a6b116f387a08d91525f24988dd0bbbcd
font_01_sfnt_off000100fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11915 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 2b4be94090c45de54edc8286191768a7384114c2205999b3cd8bb0284f08e2da