Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ae46afd487cac50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:21:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ed8523a1dbad63e457e13f7c9c162676 SHA-1: 5451ad5f830e02ec15ef40dcf46dfd6aa0abc363 SHA-256: 4ae46afd487cac506b2a7d775f3078199f1490456b2b87866a480dda7c3a1101
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 CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71589935074.pdf
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/57299643796.pdf
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/rafobipo.pdf
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/sewutizutojebiterow.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b6e46e9f8---71761621008.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6845c65d65---girafotuko.pdf
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidule.pdf
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/83583008966.pdf
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/27385374565.pdf
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/vijatuvowotubilol.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a245ee9f6c7---34630468827.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3089705e23---fonirotebabezumawuvi.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5a3ee4316da1e80cd5da9147298cb4/40834841964.pdf
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/26072710510.pdf
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99737760901.pdf
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/bebijivutuxubiwo.pdf
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevovezimuwagazazep.pdf
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pev5nrm6p99iqjlsufgcjugcpp/minipebejodibo.pdf
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31191393630.pdf
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/vuvawovolokulanozi.pdf
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/50842656815.pdf
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozulozakodizuxita.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe20cfbe61f6f1c8c0f0a5f17f915d6c/wuwudis.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gate+short+notes+for+instrumentation+engineering+pdf
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togenidoxev.pdf
    • 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_off0000e18b.bin
ca18e460106b374e232e866737c4a495ab3ec43b864f8c4f8e99a05cd8c6252f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18B 17656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127ca.bin
c3891a1ebe53bf7476e199274184fbfa714e5ce473e2da24922538499401fbe7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CA 11040 bytes