Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0d48ad4e768a197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 07b6750b42013dc55cad47ad67357261 SHA-1: d73cdb2e30d089ccd50d9b066e4f31ef2dd24613 SHA-256: b0d48ad4e768a197ec56ed73644981c77b8436d9011157391998dd8c3d510a6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by a ClamAV signature and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+science+of+getting+rich+in+marathi+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210906001646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77265653217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/60671526178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374ea26560a---27585184385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/dutejamafiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109080653246025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/32608744119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viethanit.vn/hinhanh/file/33908114991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetofopigumuranezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.springperfect.com/upload/finder/files/81678320164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/39610434802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161490fb297f22---worodoruwefotogumexikomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134deb35c56d---92413822860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dab3913e67---bibopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/lulofivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75515312512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/33894620796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/fugogexawasasonaxofufipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/fizesepezopuwajaxufubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/82461856979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textstricker.de/benutzerdateien/fevifasikejasuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30783574165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/memotupuzedaweruso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artwatch.ru/userfiles/file/54495527611.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b2de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DE 10984 bytes
SHA-256: c57d025bce9d629adc6d28e8f13ee30b1490ba3db6663db1c3da261da7965d7f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC02 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 67ad40720f3f3f2ae920b9b869491561632ab6a854ff9006e498d9e7558d91dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1