Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 148087a68e850f98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-08 17:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 438ef07ebd1f3510722b3d963a616bde SHA-1: cc8565a496ac5a6e84ff6dfbb3cdb7e8f4be51a4 SHA-256: 148087a68e850f98b9daf181cffa7167d41539fa448936b5670e3f3c14954351
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. One prominent URL, 'https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=google+account+reset+apk', strongly implies a lure for downloading an Android application disguised as a Google account reset tool, which is likely malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns point to a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=google+account+reset+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0dce9579a---xezeranipure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8869c423b---97125454579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efivmvppag21mqahqphdqqtb40/xadoxulebiwijilumateve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda4b5be123c3d0f350497220dfaf32e/89450506749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/80504075639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/70930009371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608540acb2f2a---48858277022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c47839bfb---bafigixodifasupuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro2o9m5e8uqfhhvqgco71n3afg/risisakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/44747772292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ab127854ce20d7e2002afc5e97b5a9/durususarozevidagineron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/rifinerazudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03255b51f4---33975286304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a774827b5aa---6750816090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a245311fd5f6bb2de131ce448e0c0e7c/22566717223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3672236aa38323820c288e86eab8048/vafajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c65097851---sikisalolunisetad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF230 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 1295b8171e3e75ba286d8e8af728e5075340377f72626f953231a5c742128ae2
font_01_sfnt_off000103fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FA 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1a5f7e6165af916c9adca6be570ff6247cc4d0c5fcfe7b0df0623c398c7d6d