Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 769d48ebaf5e507d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:31:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6b913fed910ab0f72bcee357cd11de04 SHA-1: 1d93fc4c3cdc63bb0809d22b5f8c0de6da2231ae SHA-256: 769d48ebaf5e507dba7b3f820fcc37902c0c389ced2b60832dc2e48848c694d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure suggests it is designed to lure users into clicking on these links, which likely lead to phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9cbf39040d872eb4112a0f80c0c3231/lekulojejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18985924c03c557560bf6c7031bb6ea/88686445733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents/files/vabuverurowavuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o383cm0v7kha5hpfte17pntsig/92795089723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/728564907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84414977e1c541bbb338364c4df0b0f5/bajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161216b590288c---gerofuwizaletap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874378a24d1---28977235291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f11f5eb76a3fa24a141aa0d54359f7bf/warutemaruvapukegadinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dor9fog6ol8m74cl109buf5lc/21218157119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a6389fc90---geminivokitave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/91065669790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/31746871424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/tujarupewubexexagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc255b9f274---25722872945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/vozodumozapopoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6742072456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2785a2159cee157271ee5f67eba8097/pimegifalavoronuruwomoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa29ef4c4a0af735e760f565f94deec8/raxarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/lugotovugufojake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/vogiberejemigugagopezenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=making+contact+virginia+satir+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_off0000e4c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C6 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd5b55d96d0b1ecd8b389be5f8eb23c3d898ccb73dfe85e1469ed29cb4cfb37
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD8A 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 79f8ebafad2a7f22ff149ab331e5dac7fc493a82649599791a8d17dfdf091205
font_02_sfnt_off00012b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1