Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 149b237412746d69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:37:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1afc40612e6577886de0d4c81092ac46 SHA-1: fa961952b4154354cac13b178889fd60ad57d4e0 SHA-256: 149b237412746d6905897981a327bef8a9116d230576c1e7c10ee39b8633ba03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b63854ac2---22224618044.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ucijl8gph6gd42gbq0tadsjlbm/wevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlhl7hrk3uudjakjcltm7p0po5/47238879256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en99dpbg55vrskc0ln6epgh624/kitokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/4515564210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210620130633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf99c8adb7d---91975199166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ece244ba4---zijerewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610931a1c788993560427e9489e8b86a/43137230963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22abf42deb---gixuvobadafegijosebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34d30b4151---35869312937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c8bd45c54---sezeladobotesedowoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xolanuwuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/97419098536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb1481960bef8754750eee0690dfe36c/69637916905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859a4a80e3d---mifuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9859324ee8---gixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dadcbecdc91---gamisali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b30d94587ea9a72e09a27f942121f7/noguvamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812babc2ebb---86200874831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/88064290178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=sister+of+my+heart+pdf+download+freePDF 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_off0000f9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AD 11036 bytes
SHA-256: fe30c78e6fc272196014385cf9351fd35b2be66aaf74c9958fa9d8330f12c587
font_01_sfnt_off0001133a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133A 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 6ee93fb75e633f1d7e5913a2a23cf24097c5f966fd5b523c311bd9a2e80e44db
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1