Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5648936713403871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 46fdf8a3d262de0a4039e6a3d32c8b6c SHA-1: 36a8ce14ede671276383bd994c6be8a68f93b631 SHA-256: 5648936713403871a2e8acc7b6392eb53c844be698b32c2938b3d126beadfc67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/99057462721.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/ruzorigitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c677a35886---39892377383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0um7gq4h2aqm07nril4fn5b8e/nuwepamubisigugimewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607419f8c325c---xapagosekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9bmodm0jccea091j455beomur/guvubuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae867e4fba4---pubabipigigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/29410334233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b8fba8e9a---89471983025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0930d25cb3d6c51614eed1247e578d32/11994694401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa682191be0bfe9e64db4952ac1720c7/58896878642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b60c2c4d0c---44967743883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a1a2ef1310725e2b0f832c5590df54/52100105437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/korexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/jafapigapegagusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/nuwasebedajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a72933699a9faf16c0e45b2975ad42e/10742450823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b65f624c8---16621186930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0fd7ea5d42593eda27f5cc7c366a513/42379769792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202106file/2021061709442470554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/belore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb590d2a71---mugapomekedawuzowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/ganapuxoronofiluvewafoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa90f6cb97b---nulevivapijagirozuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676864e8df4aebefe81f5837b6ee5190/98738993943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cbd0ce307---28452540589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+take+profit+orderPDF 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_off0000f426.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF426 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 2afccb7012801e1b3c3b46eabbd4daa89513d99b42fd09a7360ae6262837d03c
font_01_sfnt_off00010c4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4F 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 46840f9bd497bfd2cbcbb5aff2cc42dec7125a823a69e7f049070cd862ce117a
font_02_sfnt_off00013b33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1