Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac46142307bedc74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 03:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 300876f7c567ea5e38049954e87f1606 SHA-1: 465c7a4820a6638156dd3aa84cf0afb8c0a6c6fc SHA-256: ac46142307bedc74b4fac23edb64ab6b3314d9d17b13d95a4169b78895c3fd54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file 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 URLs that point to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ideas+de+como+utilizar+una+m%C3%A1quina+de+coser+antigua+en+decoraci%C3%B3n PDF link annotation
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/fejogadofesatapemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/9108227020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/7968877862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tajuzisida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccu868hp3drv0cv1llp1rfc74o/52911360588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105cdffdcb56---33523190362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60f20aa777d7695c0766420b4f1e67ab/raparifedexivifixijudebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a61ac16cb---27687364720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/37248819574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbe3e637561---luxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3760b3c936f59debbea23278981f842/70481732374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/64359090676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbff544022e---5727619816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bupenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107eafcce9ec---79865771564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7f6e0122a6c2d9e5ddbd16ccf216868/puvudixefubujopoxasumowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b831443722946a57ad9dd6959e4c6522/sapolipabewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/wirudovesaguxavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9llbq433ucivj4kahjhinvouu/geberawojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/tugekujanevegefatomomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/75094157969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b45962b1b748c80a226edc057bdcf7e/liruwigibekodoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/79513482159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/89074198303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugetite.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_off0000dfc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC2 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 43117b09b2179eb7b4fb8efda812d08e3598bca0defb5db91a2773534b2897df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF911 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 425eee45f4cb4ce3c90bb9d62629e1aa3131bb471b2623171a10dd4dbd34ecd8
font_02_sfnt_off00012574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12574 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1