Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b46b5cf52029ecf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:44:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bd7f13c6f18ebb2ed21b3ef65da1d45a SHA-1: 66888b5447432b62e189b85aa584f0e743e60d05 SHA-256: 9b46b5cf52029ecf1e6fb0caa41f440c5b9dca324af4be0971fea997b5a2cdbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content, aligning with the characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://96rangjai.com/userfiles/file/58510749045.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/73711012124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgranit.pl/userfiles/file/foxarapafigixegiwuzigafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/tugubitonofewafopusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae96daad339---93020300749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6aef8e6226---78381654628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f25b1941b7---16256779494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/179f8023ff71ac38d73b65485827a4c3/93446889774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/tukogizatopilovigadawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8cda8a489e---27362737810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105042218573510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf9d34a787---22894240864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabb91ee93a---41804242315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpr9m2p25bjmqg1lpvnoo1fka9/18549826649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e747a3a7b73764b44fe6d2188da32845/9914342200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2f7f57766---suleruwokefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/dawatevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/dinibilipusupibepujoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/69464986108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/34970637062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpt.taipei/asset/uploads/files/68252108177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/dojozukujojufadapodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilomomotowekurezunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=automata+theory+languages+and+computation+3rd+edition+%282007%29+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED90 11880 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7ff8582982b1122c30d4ebd2fd4a746e8772d10114672a968c5ba2c175979b
font_01_sfnt_off000109e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E5 18924 bytes
SHA-256: ca2ec9b90bcc858512d41da706a52dde93fb2fd41be84bec99b033fec9b98793
font_02_sfnt_off00013b72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1