Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f46c61d7af4beba8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9ff51ea6495d596dc1fcdae744ffafe7 SHA-1: e8428344b149c865044ecf8cc0d111f6a96878ed SHA-256: f46c61d7af4beba8c146ef3812ebae251b0d7c897090c54fb9bd5fb29151b420
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, with multiple links pointing to PDF files on various domains. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467a4f36640da1bfe3c23b3223f1cb59/legasoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/zilitajutajesejetaziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/fodunonijugelemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626118061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taumed.kz/upload//2021/08files/2108030236036048229wxfl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/fikomojemotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d4b07a9bf---kotiwiborisogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/fegijowusevuparevideju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/21001879055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8vam7mv17pdg2hsfpmgalu803/34435909008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/39291163383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hogan1973.com/clients/d/d4/d4eda5e2427b34f3a15374adde9a77da/File/25453389031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03c9a28299---sefigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0vs0t5ec9vnrfhe2en4futbev/pazonewatozanilajenatibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/55843784834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bosefaniwapeputuwesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolari.it/userfiles/files/dosaxuxepovanuvisuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af36395db8c781f0159679ffcac48326/wojegasubovenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stigstudiotecnico.it/userfiles/files/49160471390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a33829e794e2b747a58e4721900c9648/vaterusededejimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/losuzedokovowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/sumanuvepubigutege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=les+causes+de+la+chute+de+l%27empire+romain+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/3324048321.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_off0000d732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD732 19488 bytes
SHA-256: f4136c98b61b349048bd84709c9bf863a1ec9ad15f5c429c813f61be2ee805c5
font_01_sfnt_off00010823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10823 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfc795cf657b327e8eefc5db25c277de3b229abdd75963efbbe798b9cfda6ee
font_02_sfnt_off0001216f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1