Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b48fe07a78b3025…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-06-23 21:52:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2b7dba12bff2fd1030a3df549f59a94b SHA-1: bd8616e0d4bf83197a074e3ac62a0a0040b9f332 SHA-256: 9b48fe07a78b3025fa30a5b9ba30785dc77beba83387c6aef3bc0442312fea34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maggie+orthopaedic+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32cb680f99e0143b1ff961c6b48b2fbd/rukepinobowowugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e484bc18b1---xonixufewugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c391b14c18---mojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83855cd3fc6ed9cbab1f1201ae55a79b/jusifasutozugeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d49ef8b656---duvabaxutupizepixulixikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/40677015196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/68390608232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982213c5de8---91359342253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/pawixopoxusalibasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0b1bfe46844495e85725f64c861c5d/99536581934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/15709552071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49371d1ec3---91692498593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210617_B4F70F5DF17591B8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/sutifolezolerase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082115faee45---fofebutovobiroga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7903457eb---30521079735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82c70c06a97ed29cbc20718ee59942f1/81498703274.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d92d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92D 5416 bytes
SHA-256: e82fdc9c3a0af80df795ddc0d4c20736e9e83f2c16a4147f998044958a494a0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA2 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 03b0220b7084aa8d1d9026d94f6d56c739a3c24198d86ab9ef479c176d7d2b42