Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c46a9bab671abdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:57:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 82a61f907009795ca73fc1303e8986e7 SHA-1: 9f726b190edab06782da540777d65554d94ed6a9 SHA-256: 4c46a9bab671abdbf1324d0f305fb7b79ba9cdb34da7b836ef975f0fdfab85c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lead users to phishing or malware distribution pages. The presence of many distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/96591306733.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9427533461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bfe8e9f0c---12562056525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609428586eb1d---nevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635822fa3171d99e99be06e3303b53ec/80983754376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um53lu5ba1qik8dhjk92g4jngn/40423895494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48ad266acdecff4c2007aebd827a8ab8/50279294979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/30461128088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975a8d19252---92829462035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95905717347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/31572099887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/faboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d774d2532f42d77966f478f3e6158967/marematowukiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95f34dc733---48367914088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/wirotekemadabudiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk3dlcjsn4d9itrei3s2llk4lm/wojusines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/walumuposaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/70479803725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2fca643eb---61998549446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/napixixuzukezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100529463ee3---85357150447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33c445d49f07f4267b8cf6cbcdcc2d6b/zitaworabivebisipere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d994d775da53061f2b5334189cb24c/80093407722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deccanquest.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/buzepakumazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/nadomolumuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=used+subaru+xv+crosstrek+manual+transmissionPDF 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_off0000ca21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA21 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 57fa3fc2514af8c8b9b771ffa3191f3cc7bcb34a2e250a959151c52fe3febe51
font_01_sfnt_off0000f620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF620 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 970bd38633063dedd17f3514f358d0e430dc300dcf42af4bbd777d59b9948e40
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1