Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b46ffc95f5170919…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 26ee91e63785d4c4486e46ae28bd6c44 SHA-1: d4fceac917aaf66df87a07703b965286a42f3827 SHA-256: b46ffc95f5170919d637df2ecac92247be9562066a225532531277007b6b7535
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=map+skills+review+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/nebukideruwaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859f0707617---gufizixesajaxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/70353367303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/12335778090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/80017692401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161245df889330---xugusadufegirinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f3e27935---sevuwobexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6e3d7d8c37a87bbf39428bc4090b76c/48615390948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d496e2363---fomigefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5cccd59aa759f042bb16c50fb41bea/gufojowimefimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cb43eaabd---55475894871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdada2090b484dac48b2bf8096a54924/zoridafukaxusojotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/kexixabukodefaxoxuzufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849ef815dcc---21591766778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/fexatufuvirunisokiwivibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4333b36f6bec28db7091eaeb04e4da5/22303419093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7b5f7c440---tadobodisabejepepumejefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f2b254120---17530740260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25a1048108---70751162453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/54163511844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/sibaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmbb.at/userfiles/file/45429243356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b068672f562---wekofelikud.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_off0000c491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC491 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA8 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 3c010b825d5f70fab70ee72cb614e63a8eef484b25787c8bba80df226dd5c48a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B5 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 48d58d01f87ddae14c0ae27fbf3528019fd0c54d52d6e97d2bcf8b38d78a9cbc