Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c46ce845105ca05d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 16:24:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 2890c84d6d9c7adb7123d3a385e98c6b SHA-1: 12cf7aded221e871b72512cabf80149b33b77145 SHA-256: c46ce845105ca05de5caa38b498256a915d4ea81506832ff9ad52803f761770f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d66a4d2ff5---nixunadigowebele.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/95224127757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/34044448999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b28dbe733---vemudimulirununuxijose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c594eb19083---18618233977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/87579953765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bfb71dbd364cceb6912fcbe546eb527/togoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daob13ivffs2ein1a7ilkvblt7/28204857776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6024a38c9e---varanufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/sedobubomebozobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/73805287000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/popewovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/70284470964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/28517647652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj1peo2qmu1fopn9hclqi21cg7/dewawebijawowodogojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poker-fire.de/file/poposik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f005670292---mekimakaketut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d01907504---nisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/26182798584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d3b24a82a---dulukapovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/32619761325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d353597564---povaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ef92ae0e0---pivizijufawiwaforabukape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/85907763389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+sims+4+apk+mod+offline+unlimited+moneyPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10070 17712 bytes
SHA-256: f9f327b9d4b99182f6fb257f071720007e53b5cf4e0ad210656c665d7f33b833
font_01_sfnt_off00012f0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14726 11012 bytes
SHA-256: d8c040d91e4a6616c148cf63d229df7d359043ec70c8554f454af2df8ffdd75f