Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 749c148518cf396e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 19:19:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5dc4950b0920bd935ba715d72556b00e SHA-1: a86068cc218f1fcf37c7b02aaa71f5174b14ca90 SHA-256: 749c148518cf396e4f8a08840911bfe820e20eef9d95ca99934d5ad1042454a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host or redirect to further malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to these external resources, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51e9ce7e9---gokejuxiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2nhrges5p74t5sbl0qesunr27/44608670604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c602bd721d---puluwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856e9be8ec5---7181958464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/xazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7e287dde8---bobidagipemunewedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81409043028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c592a62dd22---raliwikovobedexelasupolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8a63a76a3---tusamesotenujisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/varasikoleruvifidubazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e84dc0623---48749658751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62229f2a39078604119e161a43413d54/6140042667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafubomogowulutisefepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogigadezebup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f6db829370034fbc7952cc6d537447/5469522348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4ea920e4e1---lovajurujejanasupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f311fc133f---84933045566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5r1dhfad41n7gjp6e8avlpbdq/65454899963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ff5726be6---76837662619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8uk9je1ns7igkdmkibin9gcb9/duzalumutevuxevinosawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/19464204765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967b2f1798f---88399728377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/tukuvivudubiburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=one+for+the+roadPDF 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_off00010472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10472 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 4550a76775254df985a031c2e9d1ccc0f8a9a7963915e326ca9e43418a3c67ec
font_01_sfnt_off000130b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B0 10172 bytes
SHA-256: eb06a939aa745d079582d7e106f5e2e38bf15f4cb9ea0012fd1edfcaf1cf41d8
font_02_sfnt_off00014766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14766 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1