Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1147c393ec921f44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-08-31 23:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 949cb6bb481ff613ba755e92f7f273a0 SHA-1: 0d7862ed286657d881c31e3320969b3dbc4ba569 SHA-256: 1147c393ec921f44c53a08bda4ad872b697ed1058f7bf9fca4f1e98e8dc53ef3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a primary function of directing users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78377109122.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa10ff6b014---tuvenebisirifapaponipaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608990d901cfc---lukukivakiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/vixopogidusanovugijezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roletyhanarol.pl/files/file/77260660943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1962.com/clients/41687/File/vemesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e87e294505---pusaxopavativorilifujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/23963766830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/20496055255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/56397467382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikoi-es.club/yamituki-n/uploads/files/18566514936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/456f28fc2de0904935674c09643bc4c1/tojolifevafidome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/laroripob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/48060183321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/defuduvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regcureguide.com/files/files/92616792490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/xogoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/32832732762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdpumkgd3q1357al2abe1iphc2/gusetuweboravusifotidafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75648667788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b7d7755e32f2af63177f87692f4b06/56499324636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31863639051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/36790177102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/rogexupexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efa171df47b5b5ab53d51525dbca2423/92420013926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3e829c15aed78b8e76b97cb0c5008d/26907673069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=my+knees+hurt+from+standing+all+dayPDF 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_off0000da89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA89 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 219486c5e9497dda0633663c93424b4433ee1e2a6b84dc8e6cc4b73621cc1af3
font_01_sfnt_off0001068c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068C 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 55ffea05550dfa241b68a205d5e1cc2beb28c350ada336d3370fe0cc8d146cae
font_02_sfnt_off00012011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12011 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1