Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46a4aab5ae031cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:45:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 355c1acc897a365802cceb83dfb39ea2 SHA-1: 1d7c21cb324209c632faa8d5699397a1156a154b SHA-256: a46a4aab5ae031cf58716529c53557410832df785846f39f9685b0ec528bd2ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+waste+water PDF link annotation
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/24181123950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/78603469391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f18452d80a580ac6dd2ff0d1d3f6f3/gatalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705d63053ff---zojokakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029d6083c318ee846785882743960c16/kekujubutiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d75e6992232dfec570e8ec6d208ac5e/papun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5e782ee487466c4ed4bf572c28418bc/gaxagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1qbjla2ns2kd43i33k0muf637/soxewoxelovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq9q0vttj3dhrq9ir7l83680vb/32886462130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jhj1dvgesdapgvco01lv7mqcn/robute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80316e9f5a---24997949450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/47103695645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6488422386ab2284762a02d0fd14399/dowewojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/80882720110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b3d9e70ba27cd7bd17e5702d2f3711/mamovewujidinigunurabuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbd739fdb7---91455539630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jtos47f6t56sg6aeanm4uuc4s/tinepixuwapixalofizilobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of55qmji5b6b6thso92pghk7d2/selusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqka2u6c9f2ld9ro0tj6q4fnfk/xutubikuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2fdb3018766a4bf397fe88651c59d7c/79075641092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/xudiratas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svljtjse7omhdgnklsfnpkhj0d/kibanajinamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57be94cab60354d468e5e2acbdd6935/42590241157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/59209995087.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_off0000efce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E4 9852 bytes
SHA-256: b2980c2b085d3792c5473790143c950cfee5cec6d381c79e4448be9bb61400f9
font_02_sfnt_off00011dcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCB 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 18efff06bc4fb2718af1941840cd75a49e578fe1d33fcc740ed76365113843ff

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