Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46c0f5a0646c7dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-06-12 00:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 545c0b538fdbab3defdf33c99e6678a1 SHA-1: 14434e8c4fadc1b2b5442add1f3e6848e7a9c7dd SHA-256: a46c0f5a0646c7dcd705c3635083a6e025277ca028ef9f479923bed8201977d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan distribution. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malware under the guise of a game. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fall+guys+download+for+free+in+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/nixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba407fd76a2---mogagologusupokiraxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/ginetevutoxivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8bd1cf9173100418eb603bc4d37799/63095884180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v31ns5s1dsd8utfade3o2ha7ib/peranejorigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a483cb637---zovunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a73d0cb22---rifejigepelidileseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/manatibiwenabuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f7f32f76bed0e67311fa69def85c6d/giguzafusevikewopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ohj5clk7mt0o1chvnou6h35l/sozotepikovuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a43a1d920---67207049362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e84dca43f---zatometizona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de55504882806241a39740e299e882a/nufuvododusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52c17120dec186090a78aabf9b66bb72/21588149280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E0 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 5f39d838822e63d5ba17f22e533e784c4e4295418e2c2753187247cc0321db0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F0 20432 bytes
SHA-256: 01ba5ed008608dd8da1296199d95593916963c448b7f8f752e560d08bb982606
font_02_sfnt_off000123af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378