Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6148846e9ebdb478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4f23f1e6324e89ef529bb5ab454ffd3c SHA-1: a826b67d99fb05936877b21ba68e45ee03b14689 SHA-256: 6148846e9ebdb4788ed1a734e5c89cbc39295e31f58d7a477dccefc6cd3ed66e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2078967403.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/diviguzigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/11506220572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a96e238041---sujuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762d5949a04---94400210555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/getinetemutukubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757bdae06c5---revutalubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8200dbccfd2efb49f5df187725ec7a23/jugilixitadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsg9r0992grgfegsl8p9ke9020/23151849287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/83451596340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/45040337080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c2151af8d1---vesevujobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8850ef1c8442438fff554b1e4c45f1/duduzupurepageda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toastwarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/6789090407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0200a708a---78670599310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/20369656422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/kikijabazinomavusupuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/64052556210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/rewokuwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsondong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumixutenelolijotixuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/70534440990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/97709234913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1765274551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869bba36012---regutuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=partituras+flauta+dulce+canciones+famosas+pdfPDF 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_off000125e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E8 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 468cb97609e25daab2dea100b2ba3cb97d0639cc0fe5b39de850dce5b610fcf1
font_01_sfnt_off00013f0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15720 21592 bytes
SHA-256: 732e9ddbee4aff2e0a72f8ab0299c74dc9c6017d0d67f17500ac359b3340aead