Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 147a810193e86ccd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a6244909aac80b46555e11759f21fe7d SHA-1: ba1d9c6e9805315c1a350bf70de37f2b1d4d1900 SHA-256: 147a810193e86ccd7d981b1bf3fe5b3e4e29032dbe307b5548819067a846d64c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acetylcholine+is+found+in+all+of+the+following+locations+in+the+pns+except+the PDF link annotation
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/84483931882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/napiparogudetojosomomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609ee38a9c323---94379727844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84e8b7923f---lowepaxijapipuweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/15263515662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771a861ff73---69797556985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/783cfcff1b2f12c1a0ba051416f47e33/lugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/rozetawema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c895f61174f---jidalunafugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drpro758e6dr4kvcgmua8bts34/lilesozobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b195bc7493---janekamejeruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092186b52e39---25696930963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78398406c8cdfec10b541d3bbb7be2a1/77014207875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifuboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87b1b8d4c0---sixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/15398294322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/ravorawipamaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915b3559092---35352055222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dede9d14cdf7a92b26cfcf28dd0a899d/figudulekinolawajuwumugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aa9af16d9edaeba82d9eae8dfa9a20d/zagonudenoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/log04unqo93gc8mb7jveob1hkr/ranigotigodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/busorivugafumirudizatutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210608002853_4iyrzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/walotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/dusorogaginazalinopowi.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_off0001003b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003B 11180 bytes
SHA-256: c786aa0a7686fce7c426fe971c4d76829cabb3857cd770df5579f4bee24737e8
font_01_sfnt_off00011a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3C 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 4d11010421732f09341290a7666b6fdbcea978af624efe8077dda8f39cc8b0f8
font_02_sfnt_off00014553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14553 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1