Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae46ed99463b2f35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8bbaf71eb587d150d386e04373c82fce SHA-1: 9b48412eb77d11968fda5acce0636ac4005953db SHA-256: ae46ed99463b2f35363459214c06258dc7f37efc331af9110629b62dbb8e540f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as phishing/trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ld+player+portable+download
    • http://www.superior-inkjet.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewamo.pdf
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/vizigejusawotugasu.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de8ef4df75---mewawenisixafudoxakemuxo.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a8904f6e55d21477f42c5ac563d59e8/98497479297.pdf
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/vexumife.pdf
    • https://keongracun.org/contents/files/94449950430.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/19455439939.pdf
    • https://karlholmbygg.se/UserFiles/files/donazasad.pdf
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/46419766459.pdf
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/vilixolatesujapeduwexisev.pdf
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/37931330281.pdf
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xurikojarojevunegenifo.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca05453b1bb544a29a131e5b6a552845/wumusawizigomixedefan.pdf
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/18336282649.pdf
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/fafisevesefutakexisifa.pdf
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/95805371866.pdf
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361ad08bcc9450e82658ceeca1dea622/99672874346.pdf
    • https://vinaarc.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80050698810.pdf
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/39617314414.pdf
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/somolivatiwudot.pdf
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336be4cfe0f---47126739753.pdf
    • https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/jonanepatakef.pdf
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///53050473044.pdf
    • http://321eastern-thailand.com/userfiles/files/57037102392.pdf
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/gonaxap.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbad.bin
ad808e079109907bb15d4e943632fdfb2adaa7565d103e3f7349abcb5467851b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBAD 10420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f33e.bin
105d2e01f9bf90544f587daf9f9c472ab618ef8e39b681045138819a0dfb544b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33E 18428 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012306.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12306 16792 bytes