Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb46156801da1586…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4cb68a36df10b4e02ceefb5695d39972 SHA-1: b44f7e2ec250dba5e69049ac1ea6146e226920f8 SHA-256: bb46156801da1586b3557096179dc4265d475a2886a615673dccf5cb20a1a3a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unprotected+pdf+online
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/jimulezoworezo.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c343ca41d---gujotexugazelixawo.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtnkgm1ri550jpva4dhh77qpp5/39176750900.pdf
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///daderexebi.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n80im5e95v1rd85l2ic2j4pbgf/gusonadejaxo.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b0bd2a554b1c0965681f0469661a8c5/wikepud.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b7648a1b7a8d6c33ce6d9549d50d3d/25272327173.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c434048290---86104874639.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/78572527607.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12d1795c2a---12098252863.pdf
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/vomikimar.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eb54c8a24---wuwimokarofo.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66e5758686---kibimejinopa.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb842ab9c09---13473901366.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdofdolofdpvhuh94pf9g99tm1/witomotapiwebamuvetix.pdf
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/numazonogavijogekejupovel.pdf
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/bamipemavanazim.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/59769050185.pdf
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/52635453830.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78ef225c764d9ae86a1f2d19cd273ed/vitozevivanotivug.pdf
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/50386722811.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_off0000e619.bin
1aabbb3880a5e2eb7c149749702faabf5c31302266a2c50ee34857c7fd8c0960
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE619 17612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113fb.bin
52b270314bce1b236811f0d7c286a3823a8beab1e02abcefabf3d9a4245990f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FB 10292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b2d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2D 16792 bytes