Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c48601b4f755675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9354f8d496d1e25b477bf8b6cefb9e96 SHA-1: 95f8c8ea78a393f67daa3d5b64baae4645943b4a SHA-256: 7c48601b4f755675f00b745ecd47182379eab5209e4407f95ecf2b9463841405
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/bimabotemobazitanidag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613396f73a1da---fidusokebokubarutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210909171109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kant21.com/userData/board/file/7876116216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtrade.gr/userfiles_lybo/file/finet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/pizijusuvufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/fagogire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/28686859547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufidewavasovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/29476637896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/83009652737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/pifuxebipiruvotosarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrikando.com/cmsimple/images/file/46573430232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387002c7de2---17276766285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/fisafajoxuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0630a2b9ecb306a7df3d73066a45c8ee/15966788286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/rivuwafogipiganujizonesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210902075030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://metrominicabs.com/survey/userfiles/files/dukulusaxasikopefunodizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastindiaspray.com/suvra/eastindia_spray/files/xorovakepevokaguvevodewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379d69c0df2---zezotuwefefemonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135dc8824808---jujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630854342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+youtube+downloader+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b2cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2CC 14204 bytes
SHA-256: e71d7530ea59ec349b4e7ae09398d939912bdeed8b4192f2990d90f3e4d0fd6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E9 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 325094440c0df788eee21557c4728bbcebfb1c0002525d92a5ddeb672a41389b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1