Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1badf48badfeaacc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 07:30:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a3898625c95f99de4ed75f5eb57cf86b SHA-1: d326487594fec73645946ed6037874f892dc2301 SHA-256: 1badf48badfeaaccbbf3811547d0c2f30041d88ec292d912c7d6e94892f866a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to the document's primary function as a lure to external, potentially malicious, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=famous+painters+word+search+pro+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f278838d9c94a9af427b8c9fc3fa71/69068717947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25312e1a7a---metoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b11382173---2678345575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d2a55b4cccff5452913f0a56ec1e05/takukugonuwolajutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/vuwazejexixeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06dbc70b79032182e8cc7d36cab303f1/12962664809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609faa8493e3f---wawoladonegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/mejimipuvijowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a967b55b895---zowukufefajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents//files/dapojonotapalajifejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cece9354273d88a0eb2fc1090115726a/ladogogupapejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab68dea0152c5f7f3ae0c67944b19ec/16877870017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/linexatatulipuviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/wivamuwoxeburez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/poziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6daf23f15d8054f43f8b798c77abb37/29801150736.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_off0000bd45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD45 5328 bytes
SHA-256: afaf14ef38dcd19af95d94f5841feb3b8360c8b94c5a313e86793d4949cdbda3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF4C 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 29aff48d8663fb47096f9c0b8bfd0271359d1f5c51cec2cd7810eee3e385a294