Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46ff564ee5188936…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 14:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3d6f07e3ac9f91d3b231f69da3778f9c SHA-1: 2b5ed9df447a7b9960fc2d28fc7d5ea8e78343f3 SHA-256: 46ff564ee5188936d1fa6cffa61d8d29fc17624be7680ccf63f4ef7b2806baa9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'factoring and quadratic formula', which is likely a pretext to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=factoring+and+quadratic+formula PDF link annotation
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/49111733957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00905d39ecf1aa70eb408742f18b4288/tavanamumalomowesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc18cc1510176b73750509f50426e994/fobuzunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/90888464665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a8a84bdf7---kejuxijorojexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2e0938c5fc7f26393f5f29337a06b8c/kibevopefawiperanigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/34595163612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3e4s28v2dphjih89934vh42p3/ruvebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhqeptg2etvc36hqlvrlf5kcjs/nixokunuzivatumixagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/dabepaxomivobifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f9fe73cde---wevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/gikunulozilarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3uq7lnqlu1dilvsu2ja7eu2je/tevewuxiforir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/61973523505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/25300584803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2cb533e83---niwamupumarukulorumemiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a226ff9d9ec---susazixaxawerojowoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/19260736716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080a0add2161c1fdd916d55bfaaa897e/83728869591.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e17d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17D 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 3b2b6958db6599ab6df8c8bbe2519768968bdaa3abdebb11852a10f97d8076c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF339 11752 bytes
SHA-256: 05057341627332697b6154200a2e7b0214d6071da91e58fd3a93b14bcaf4dac7