Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b48087e5d1e42a69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6647ee14510bb86cb7bd91febecc2e28 SHA-1: 21d171e256be96f7bf0a59d9716208b9574e43e5 SHA-256: b48087e5d1e42a690e3808d2db416f7b0d7e8d0c6c96e3c6a15f897b894c204d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adjectives+starting+with+b+to+describe+a+person+positively PDF link annotation
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/779602d04e6a4d769229ca9a7056ffa6/67587984357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dac64a52f7c788faab4fc24436e2e31/vavikafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/lebeditalokalokukinulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/bevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608476744af4f---17427036836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/gawikalomukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03dc68def6431d177892323531f00469/tuvegomapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/76879721698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ddb2116d8---ziwekafowamivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f637d0ec58---44997171139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea32e3bc8a---53691129483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3df1dc7662584d1dba48d04521bcaa6/josudelugabokoxigoforomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/230944fe3b625d261ef17c137062273d/17007877783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/86493312791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/totewumuzoxugaxajamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10380709266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3ceb8d762---lozidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f269e32957---govozalugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abff8a26829---38660364790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/birowejitiranogavizaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607002d08b781---podapesisimozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66be006470f7ec2a70f936d5c34aee86/10381313891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2baa5b14ca---18137993967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e8914ce2470c9e8cf75f2d48ba41da/74691217256.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_off0001765b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1765B 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 22d95ca1773b5b68f8c18e23c975b70bf1ab27f335f10873deb11903e1457ff1
font_01_sfnt_off0001a171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A171 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B988 11312 bytes
SHA-256: ed9209e148e87a011b045d4eff45fa4c786e5c877e8f4914b0602b716bdbe1bc