Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 147e4bb11a0e4b54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 64bb4024ab787d57711524fc4f09b64a SHA-1: d1b4b5b15b7585b09872976afcff3987e9f848f6 SHA-256: 147e4bb11a0e4b54d3097eda81eb811c6bb3d160306388e42e137a75a4b57f38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, indicating it is likely a container for malicious links rather than user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/76637001059.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608307a60cab4---21221317125.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b9ed6ed958f56a5fbd9f69ff9886c6/dutekizudavesefox.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71rgfdrl8i30imf2jq7a3cgdv1/32071139794.pdf
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31758155537.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq3sj50hv4mrhd985o6629djtm/2505162421.pdf
    • http://redhillplantation.com/clients/1/1a/1a02e1fabf1298af97853074613e4b20/File/xorawaw.pdf
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/putun.pdf
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77708446618.pdf
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/punepu.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ce685f7a1---dotedetowexeni.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608300b9c6196---febaxiwumip.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ad5fb302c---16777413612.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f1fedffdc8bfc8bf08f3f886dfbb5a8/40185206291.pdf
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8kfa0fo1n19r74qk436jo0frr/pilejukorinokuleridow.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2beb96d5b8---weweguledugofus.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40bfb356345c634cfaf2e886c8cdf777/25455935788.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tut3k1vbupeuu3ivs30ulkcl54/22566789197.pdf
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///50723930096.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a052ea8a9cc---ketixitijamuzop.pdf
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/31843606009.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aad95e19a9f37970462cc89849765d4/22621511774.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+missing+number+from+the+given+alternatives
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/lozuwoxapodulusolegabokog.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff25.bin
78ef9bf7fe2b71ddae0ee4001656576161769b7bd85e8121d1781f7a41ee7680
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF25 16868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012b28.bin
b95a9b7f2a329809c7d5c8a3a964cb1d94ce2fba9cf8c6ceed0445e38ee31773
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B28 11084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001448d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1448D 16792 bytes