Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 148839a8aa589a40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e4d032ba34c3e304eab15a4cf50e2ba9 SHA-1: 926fb9efaec0660b83ab9e7294dcf7de156e4b8f SHA-256: 148839a8aa589a40eb691e5e173d45fbd4b6c3c3328bcff743b365bf0f57bd1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, many of which host other PDFs. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://buka.ru/sadm_files/bepede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vetilujekofudobirebufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/jenikuxolaravibilulavunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a04ba976ea8405d04aa1fc07a42db6/52552166694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/jovokijowabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-11/20210611184311533931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewheightsalumni.com/clients/79364/File/32762040907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a772e6535fd---sufutajikadudoripu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/futugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/tupekedumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/45010717084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a36782703c2ee1360691147450b5e70/kogevomepasato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808b0fb52e0---32043378003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/5625392587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enerjipiyasalarizirvesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd033e5be---bubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4a89cc9b6---45272484819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/mumonujekobumigolusano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5b2a579c7---69134266320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/xezalefebofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612177563061a---11957570079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/wuvilaxuzugipeduwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608112ea17a42---vuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/96224956563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcstaiwan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gusalurabugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pragmatics+by+yule+pdfPDF 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_off0001080c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001201e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1201E 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 3badf3bdb9c2b2d3d672a044606549aaf80539c243e233a72945e4a31ff26e59
font_02_sfnt_off00014f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F9B 11092 bytes
SHA-256: d1993c34d2b8c3f4f837aa21422bb19dd4e72eb9c14328de3c53362f998e7f98