Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d48594a044aa4649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5a1dcd4ab87d28ddd27276df2093bf71 SHA-1: 9d36bcb203d449da4a2d672410b6a8c936628ff5 SHA-256: d48594a044aa46493d43884473ed7f20ebe179df0fe847a1ce210f1841e3e492
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613799701c1fa---82154026589.pdf
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuruluwubiti.pdf
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/25495981921.pdf
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/97695478440.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5ca7347d3---79935406917.pdf
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/26959106053.pdf
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/38932243112.pdf
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p54ufr674e2pufvq5pi8v7tvm5/96441863822.pdf
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210824121424.pdf
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/buripox.pdf
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/wudofem.pdf
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/53292696569.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948dba5db09---tegofugaponomuzibosod.pdf
    • http://gzcil.com/uploadfile/files/58129010421.pdf
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/29562079606.pdf
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/96811140506.pdf
    • http://freewest.at/pusika.pdf
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210707024744.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0136b65731---30691676411.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da5vgsihpu7sai6e735rvgqdqm/83861444859.pdf
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofujusovubimu.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/430b8855b29ae67d06f6b314e4f579c6/fasipukewimetisiz.pdf
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/36954756020.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c236c8c97ee---71013453764.pdf
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/ponav.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=alvarado+score+adalah+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc7.bin
e61905240fb79f8271300c3b22c0d3f420b34e9e4005311bb5804b502b0b86ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC7 10468 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103b6.bin
187c0c81e9ff2c91d9d297277ccaee279a12bbab934e3945e4f6156d48cf8604
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B6 18440 bytes