Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d48129b9f87e4881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 05:29:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a927b37059b4bb1a0869443fdea0cdf3 SHA-1: 73a6282bdbd07109f2ff3cd680548561064b780b SHA-256: d48129b9f87e4881e08d826b8df884a3932f8cf8df8fdf383b87f48b942061ac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+1+hack+pubg PDF link annotation
    • http://jp-photo.cz/soubory/files/pexozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9afcfe8869---19657025821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e622da02f7eae6ce0c71aeccd5f7ab49/xivalumajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33s3nclf1cvi35jtcvcouupc07/568892330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/mafivedokuzuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iflblc2vridrhpspce6df439ns/97179131236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21c36bee27---zuxeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pasn0v1u7k2m50m1bo0qcadhd2/nurunuxute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc3ec81583---91198293468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/pobofikowovojiwebexotobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b30c90fef---fenedunijuzojumano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f2cb14626cf9ac0535f15c88cfdd9f/46627783659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6de76bdecc6dc134a7049033a83e918/tigedunulexulojagenorekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6veldgk3m6f2v6veotglj24ei4/92247868401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608059eece3bc---panemuvibulowejiwixuxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/tenojomafekapusijalero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu0fdnfd6sp0f5rsttirhbv0ef/fejekimudesidizefowaduj.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D1 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 178362e83c96374876115e7abeddde4f23f6fed72d558dfa3bbbfe3b92720650
font_01_sfnt_off00010c08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C08 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off00011496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11496 23188 bytes
SHA-256: 2f2b64e6c411e7dc30017777210c1ae035396eb16b1d52cd3bb5c171b30a0c6f