Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46409699c9ef9e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: af31b442d18b6f3318c73bae774a643c SHA-1: 099f325c3bb35b6f7b2bb0e10072dd85dfcf5a93 SHA-256: a46409699c9ef9e1ff22a39348c10a02cdc9f8a099d75b8b14ba7cc70fb4fa2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what is inferred from the URLs and heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=give+me+a+story+book PDF link annotation
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59048553938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43131387825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380f5d4193a05d977fafa6a361db3663/rilesifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19086697975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/gelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyupsifalibitkiler.com/resimler/files/tagijapekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607255c324d56---66374406011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gdlh0pbunrdb626g0mbhaquen/wutenutisezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee6bf1c11c201334b9fa6281231055c/loviledidaviliguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabivuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/77277295356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96573370f6d25a048371926cac0600e0/punamutugujiwekatikavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f80ad1541e---56391851727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/zawepolobufumavizavizuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/daxobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaupureinternational.com/userfiles/file/zepoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/40987929490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha4qrtemkk9sa4e1vto3gsjqu0/lekojatikinitixesugewawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bff65ad1e---mibilizonelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/fiwozowiwuxufeluxuwalev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3psha03tm2ifmnb72jtloeimu3/33627385007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/56481511161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc5fa72d08---95889790794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210814/16289144502227.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AF 18272 bytes
SHA-256: 5c6eec56d3d4ed2c83d84280d607ff8687d9358e46754ec4bdf5f6c4de21330d
font_01_sfnt_off00012577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12577 10568 bytes
SHA-256: ee962a7ddea50d1be007de71a651ebf1176526f1670d88cfbb2b23557ee1133f
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1