Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a48ab1f0c15e8ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 13:35:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4895f0c7440272c5c31d346ff6cf63fe SHA-1: 836c3fcaec3720b444cd8a1c1afb0571e43a5974 SHA-256: 7a48ab1f0c15e8ed29ddf403c163d4b2464c444a2f0455b06388bf49131ffed9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'happy birthday' and 'cake', likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=happy+birthday+gudiya+cake PDF link annotation
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae935b74c2---vivudomugipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/xezimuxabepenusobaxataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.comuserfiles/file/xumopiwupafexope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a9e52ba2f2fdca8ef744d990c54b40/kununigakosibikumefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da1baf69741f897bfc14a9854be68bcb/19312108720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf7b86172a739bd4eebac1d377f16c4/12093183247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6930a6b26578bee36f7732dd1509344/38376922299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d49b0137e1---46996469589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed838eea62---20823641366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e16ba26550---99558238892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5accd49cd0fad6032b4fdd8636e3646f/muxuniwosoxuxamiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/fisojodalasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609197d7f018b---46225892008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a67b6d8ada0bde0698c0ed19fceb9e/24519076099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00012282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12282 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 8b5619b3159d7bca366a937d15c1d2e933991289beea7b6ff2a0ea252e96712a
font_01_sfnt_off000134d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D8 10792 bytes
SHA-256: fbd07aaa0d680f867b3a9a3deb40b0e5ef68baeea6c91bc433827844993a50a8
font_02_sfnt_off000159cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159CB 16328 bytes
SHA-256: 6351fc7da899473ea37d0c14856df6484dbc3908f9195ae95734f0ff469ca3cf