Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 248ebe40eee63f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

249.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 958cd0ca2077de1392bdd3c65b05135b SHA-1: 575a44fd3a0e62d81871df3fc9ff27d8dd064d02 SHA-256: 248ebe40eee63f20efad3d7683fe7070605efb68ce3b55553e3559e08bf7ee0d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent via link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9855

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bc5e1a318---nubawokame.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c1711e6eb97a27ff5d53d5eac4a2800/kitiranusupo.pdf
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/20134787380.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c588f767cef072c1506cac68f3289bd/33013328162.pdf
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5h3ur3cmkaua5u8ai0v65hev7/53330978283.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d59f1442---77500270589.pdf
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/xadiwupanofakowemo.pdf
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36488908480.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0b188edcc4ae0bc72a624d87c8748a/86368369920.pdf
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/fobodaremira.pdf
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/refuresetukezipez.pdf
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/begojo.pdf
    • https://mm-podium.ro/userfiles/file/61500455590.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf9383f20f5---xigenex.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752336de1c5---jalizuwebogavagelegatem.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0261c0acfe46ef032adf5722e2c3f8db/82754394955.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780c419eb57---59404280626.pdf
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/wufuro.pdf
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f372d203297f1e465e4a906c7a56eac/wumawozaz.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjeo0jnktk2m77vt5rr24gr9cj/xuzaluxivumibegetuvegipal.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ceb64703bb---xisuxatax.pdf
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d126a8c448e8d84ef08958840503b0/58678747478.pdf
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/18011487787.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phdfrtfgian8itkvatgrqoiq73/bigonenoxonezegatevirole.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a5a671f3b---48434519961.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=rock+songs+without+words
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000372d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x372D6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00038ae8.bin
ccd0a3926af0bba31952a56acfb5fafe1e3239e63239d017247799d8c121df8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x38AE8 20920 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0003bfd8.bin
b4109e92ee6fe7264902da4169b97b7d9f74c3a937c23d2db47e7ad2b67fc4ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3BFD8 10632 bytes