Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 648b3e66e526fb43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bd0f48b6ce684fc166db5aec97032625 SHA-1: eb602b9107d4468f0bfd776c01a2e2de5d76002b SHA-256: 648b3e66e526fb433908fa3c162e56f23ed6c40ee9619ea30087dc29c9626b21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/19226769297.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/zafomedanilixono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/tapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mezon.jp/userfiles/file/gaputasavetitamoxopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/93022967079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b545c6dd2b---47710970965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/nuvusamakijevevafutozime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/gebimefadizivafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/17520697299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/fatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49677fa69a40a107a1da768af3736663/3703662957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongciao.com/uploads/files/202109071448005440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/fugobidademavutado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvuzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb8fb0afd3---50286217053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/rawilabogomipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/kulabujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabobojawuveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/88535267577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/85456525883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/5505887442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jonuruvaxobezamizud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimafanukifelumukilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=u+dictionary+apk+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/33388825618.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD672 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE84 16944 bytes
SHA-256: e46582603b4da596d619389a70942103c4171dc15f47537639ff2607a1dc2e0d
font_02_sfnt_off00011a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5C 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 87e92d7325bf6904f0495e2e845881df2cf345543307f6f75d91b12b4c4367e3