Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f46dae5f617dc0db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:10:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f387fd9623805e8f057295f13acef06f SHA-1: fe40e643e6a13c640a2d478cc0f2625dca825011 SHA-256: f46dae5f617dc0db52a54f2cac0fd57e8ef4d92b31dd11edcd08f5ff85827352
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drawboard+pdf+para+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ea71ea8b15924d6362be10f867aca8/55852769252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/sufidiponufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/27132054249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/refapafofaluwofulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/27776879763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/xulesuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79435bf483fef7c4ee59d89e89b07e38/34062675329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210809052523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/23834412398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents/files/51688612808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab919c4671d---30894402682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaconexmec.vn/uploads/news_file/pidezotutowajunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1fffbfb650c27de9041f6d6d4e03067/598343443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/sepobipiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/90228599713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/madorususafusemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a926645bdf4---tugeravipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/46640197208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26ce80d3c9f41192a3f3fa522e72a765/kimajariziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728ff73c6e6---wonigopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/61738233763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/jugotenelugijizini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/70264171633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de14f728d6fece5792d253f24e9b3aaa/73392153169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/48780406491.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_off0000eced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 10272 bytes
SHA-256: a96f3c62824010803e9c0c77a4e83720ea9d66229c8e168a6585920a3a87ed05
font_01_sfnt_off000103eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFD 19604 bytes
SHA-256: 309c07b62ff253f946f3afefb8d3a045f5f3af67cb6e0667a1174e5c0ed27e05