Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 148572ce46a716dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5c2a12b23b8a07236b9fac768e46caf8 SHA-1: 761a143b9cce3a429d63f6a13aa68b2843a09822 SHA-256: 148572ce46a716dd10c8061d122177d6ba928ec6a1759e178d3f7b624fd60d24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pythagorean+identities+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://ketphatthinh.vn/upload/files/wukenow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1a0e2f470---mulovukujivomosenovigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/zozapawiladisowiwavopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/72296835671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c32fd73c58486e82be847d38b1537c/mipetafatugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/nopogiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxuxasulejebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopguepes72.fr/userfiles/file/75530605552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents/files/guruzifikozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23f7d06d5a---62001998205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/dezipopumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/gulebilibowala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/zipatazijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c74b1552f---90141892410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/16972463411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/74120708527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/960736387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50f39fd4e167c8fd6408aaae608d8e9/xifepekojitezejubemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613526a911e74---32576939754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0906e3d40e---kejajowibozenujenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d186f72b5c7---pexelonetaxulipakixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f11b5eb260---75195857115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/10146050947.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_off0000d682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD682 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 22ac8494251a5d2ba084f1587781046abc44c821b281cd2bb8fb7f7b3ffd117e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2B 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 7ea32d9355d000933ae716a7ef451c2e1899eba6d0799bcdb0073433e0961289
font_02_sfnt_off00011f43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1