Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 147651c618080772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:31:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7df0dc5c1d61ed3d92164ab7a9a8d29a SHA-1: 133925ada9697b390b91080bf97f2be691e43b74 SHA-256: 147651c6180807722aa5fee901884fddd3df6f040c1eae4b118f64b059b4b333
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL analysis point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/sofavuso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ba22163cce45cd00fe2f54f8b79290/wajumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/jutalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/luxopemaxadubiduvujaxabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6fd2e3702---97728746578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608212efa9f0c---wipofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/53248849062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/75445614278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f7fa58752---burumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39fcb0432e769617444e46ad1ecc4df4/jujedufadanutopafenafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6223535619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gmpaiiboi21rc8172cbqido84/94555091616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k456lkvrii2nknp337m74p7jm7/2331255734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c556de492e0982860b4afa1781e8295e/wajaxinokadojogoxixafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/gulizarebega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a84d77950a79982422d7395af7a494b/84353700193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/zewesosofoparajaroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/27561306429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210620114906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021061907024873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/75885408000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/12573466589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db9e2eaeb979cb0b9a0914cb5fb23a0e/22869860953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/diminife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+mathematics+1+by+dr+kscPDF 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_off0000f2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A9 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 3d45f1800afa8496502dcfc9421e1f6541105281ff3711f6c3b776f4be78ade9
font_01_sfnt_off000121f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F7 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 438c9a1b67e714737ffc1b8f2463b7c464465aa636ea255516f545724200e786
font_02_sfnt_off00013b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1