Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46b0aa4fb23d66e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 14:02:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0cfdf490e742ebebdc902ff3a9f13658 SHA-1: 58f5b8b2ffc32420880fb96cf7ca45e13b699579 SHA-256: a46b0aa4fb23d66e0240d5b11034527518b1b8f5c3e12530737b4c3799cdfb00
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Fake invoice / payment lure' heuristic strongly indicate a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0rv2foffcu43hja1e8bjh7877/82393630786.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://monocroma.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7ba759f99243fb5b39e850c8a658c52/tojilaxisigiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/ligigelexibazuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f612c22e1f8b7513f3fca9dd82a79f9/gazikalusajonorisexudira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8f1a65e36467fe6d293df1a96949462/88675922062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379023eb5cfa0262bdbba29803be9d9e/85676751623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/vatuvasadajefebapovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/jekavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80fd7ef0948a4edab48e628a831b3aa2/rupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077123257ece---65798016200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079292ab304d---52512640058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/77809994268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/93732657266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/62603449183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/85970634291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd344d02b7---gofonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6596d74478308929ca7821e572db975f/vonakivuzodezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f446cca5a---37816759358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/xorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo93d2eldpml7uelk8scd5uf72/noraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275b314d036ae11d473fed74ba5505ae/dukuxuwodere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e266ef78c---91681950722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/91442916415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79ccad6128---nabodoxakure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=total+expenses+incurredPDF 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_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 35fab850997cf6807bcada83dfd5b9acbd80659587bf09130a51d2d55d120eec
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE19 17192 bytes
SHA-256: ffcb01842ebbb861dc517d0cfc16859b5474c9acef9ef8f79b3b81558a77fd52
font_02_sfnt_off00012b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1