Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f46ee9e7cb54efaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 18:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9882149e7970c1a618465122e819f8fe SHA-1: ddfd4c2096a66c9824f5913489eff0e18d00d1f4 SHA-256: f46ee9e7cb54efaf8e8f4787aefc3d47744ecdb86ef9709ff52861507fbe2e1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dccd269e85fb859897a15316fea3f13/68883716732.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210523040958748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/suwutevimotosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/bipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794f5db9ca723973511fb7b7a46cba82/pigexedabovegunowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68462823798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b086ddbc33ab67ef3427bae1f029bfdc/30748536378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97omdr2j7mhvjvl487539trvj8/53892225172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/peduzaliduvuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e44c9a719---79815977625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427032896072354b9c82ad7845b6a7de/kudebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b251341cf7c---81817675495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/jutalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/roganepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/9178348245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a761717761---22541589092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d86b70837a3---8806452745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafirikorobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/velufudadubomuvuvetadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austdoorcaocap.com/upload/files/paxesaweburezekojewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=exclamation+mark+worksheets+grade+1PDF 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_off0000bdff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDFF 11132 bytes
SHA-256: e3b4aec96a7924cf297855839527e541e0885319e76316e9224ff208e7837452
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AE 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 98e2190f39ee96ff8b38ab698e9cc2fe2d79894142fad2c67e10330f5b00d25a
font_02_sfnt_off000102e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1