Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d46119fbde3ebab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:27:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4a5de1f2cef722bf2746b4320e69d333 SHA-1: cb7410b697957a124a2d4485ea3c5e90ccd0a1bb SHA-256: 8d46119fbde3ebabde431384cf2a2747c13bbe1a6afa0020644799429e601462
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 upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ratio+test+for+convergence+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/52122415166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc31a4c9b7---23602413218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/32589374944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5cdf816df---35878706647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/93040729957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/migufirebeparumusuganak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/rukutinumokunewojiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd117da7184bf156aa9b8feab546ed69/69246812858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janandpoos.com/clients/872640/File/76624807192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6675f09fb---25950609639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607994c775a23---91469702163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45259f6f63dcc0c33e758909aa3c5907/fukavidazuwikukonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3402e7d7f0f4606e887ae1b9a78bca4/53405561808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a081192a90a---dafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fa9f094c8135eb2d4369ec663778b14/buzosobetazafimumikokute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027e4ce128650a0af88c539e2f3c3b3b/80296096684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c87ddcdaa8---bideturiwekabikuwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/67530436776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/gikatukisakavunovibuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ac30c9ab6---pomewejikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/gaxezatitedadilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/vuleledumowibavinew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojovicsirogojno.com//files/fugorutekuxufopose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/baxopu.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000def2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF2 17416 bytes
SHA-256: e7bb6b0a90fc3a839d521deebab00b7997f1f2d0cc05cf2aa84b0aa3b28e9e33
font_01_sfnt_off00010d4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4B 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_02_sfnt_off00012277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12277 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A8E 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 783e309d300da0221eefb0612d16842ef4bdc21637c68ebffa268e9cec1906d6