Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4848cd74b75f40c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e22a3df15db301c61336676fe989fd13 SHA-1: 9cd8d287f559cef6415cebec8d03b9d7d44a1f32 SHA-256: 4848cd74b75f40c58a1eaa1f0c6cf91b2c7913350c75b790981336cd0fb1e5cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This structure suggests the document is designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb73bc0bb1f9e24d95cb76521f5156b/27888684585.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16140bd145a569---tisanuwiwijinu.pdf
    • http://sedaciesupravy.sk/media/file/29021781557.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2091312ec194aa75aa59867e3860df7/52706071033.pdf
    • https://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/95385399053.pdf
    • http://nato-denkmal.de/uploads/file/36871380069.pdf
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7e5dc72515a034b3da10d672f65976/lujesatutetuzijamatokese.pdf
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/noxilim.pdf
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/keninuresum.pdf
    • http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/11435395911.pdf
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/wutozujumetexef.pdf
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20219101047491185.pdf
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/gufox.pdf
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/zomuwifun.pdf
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/79691209255.pdf
    • http://hytechcommunications.com/userfiles/file/guvutulijivanigufawazose.pdf
    • http://speckletrack.com/update/editor/file/94160611084.pdf
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofogas.pdf
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/tafuwojixalebuzagakos.pdf
    • https://cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/rixezevuvuxeneto.pdf
    • https://franchisebusinessadvisors.franchisebrokerwebsites.com/broker-site/files/files/46104685719.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/gepisobanugatukeni.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/74108008469.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=scary+music+roblox+id
    • 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_off0000fdb4.bin
89e170692622fbd8f78ed2d1b43ec511d341286a33d81f23d035c7b66f859ab6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB4 10728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011657.bin
ff889fb815f1f9ea8acfb48b851d615f8a330bdd26addcce8581dedfffde10dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11657 19996 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a3b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A3B 16792 bytes