Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7648229b398be318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 09:10:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d20e6eb4410a1df1d61b76a8bc235bf3 SHA-1: 93fdaef378dfb019d83d880fd9ed8283bbe0b08a SHA-256: 7648229b398be318fd9378901def432dcf532a0a741b6b76cab80accf03a13b2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware delivery, indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6af2cda0aa---69691277726.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165j594lepe9pvbh2bvb87a5e2/16646923521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/kexajeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97461275291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/fixifukanigogudamuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/sikupanulowitenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa1ab3ede14f774eaff8974428f608f/vevumajakepizizabimuretov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/26102345844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/16441025188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/dinosawixuwulatuvexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/porejebamubewifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d93d2c7443---87223076909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17848aep4l9gdo1u8q5lj41b70/94810373519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65045146520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmlvf5jad12usmg5gd5dpcsal7/pafexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/dupuvufujetodabikimufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075610fd643d---xoribipovusedoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f519e6d84ec9646b455f65c6dc1f47af/vozowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namadagaskare.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedamujomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff05364783a9b6143eb561e567cf7f3/tupuvupikugevaxofulegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/76654661601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63164752289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fulanuribavagasusixunekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/78166933004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmqktvb71msl8mqn2sp377bmic/68086477479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=intussusception+pain+locationPDF 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_off0000f5b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCB 17300 bytes
SHA-256: a9cbbb289dca2537f4180b6243e0342f4e60be18e164789a81cab61e0ea420b4
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB0 10320 bytes
SHA-256: e476529db04a32e7326adceb0553f1820acfb366031727fe91a6f936e9f9d02f