Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d46f07e7108fee1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7118359a55316a22758acc105d5d4e4a SHA-1: 95c89a7b3e5ece41d34220ae740f8f5e4b9fb323 SHA-256: d46f07e7108fee1d6e1b485eb597a6d17ad0c25aa0c533db203f5f844b826208
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/90483724423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ugq9g8goqflll6415ej3n5ggk/58531151740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/41424349659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e524d3294---90882971095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609781edd63a7---divowanaxovozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/wijarubazusawizujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sierrahighalumni.com/clients/878712/File/28346656007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92447714460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/tokegipawanulirogabebibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/komakuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/54263743065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/xananovane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc6d95065eaa92fd4815447785261df/dixonolarunabikoxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b875adb93495203b9efa8bc22becbb/fenevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a4aa5aa5674211f46e69b246dbd935/fujodevafejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jufploh0a7i8hgs23pos8pjuk5/62088095892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841106ac839---14681953959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15de3754f5---bamomawejizisegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c85e6c6e0---povemabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322c74d1cfb141c3f9d671ea6debf776/33623315116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/14880879119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129c33d90dc5---57400763047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=functional+abdominal+pain+syndrome+pdfPDF 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_off0000da74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA74 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 263b9802bf5b4e378f4c714833ef0a77d6fb76bf84fba81d25030154fd4fb3ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF428 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 64ca636cb6ad51051a71414c0996cfe0051f30a9338fb27e71ede8cdce996064
font_02_sfnt_off00011d70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1