PDF malware analysis — malicious · de748c9e518cb593

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:59:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16

MD5: 91e3a3280b79d50a6e5cc09a953eba06 SHA-1: 3a1185168a6a7a4ca2605dd2ae1462b5ba27699c SHA-256: de748c9e518cb59321a51671ddd9a11799c7f0e309f79b2c2e67cb78d13b4eaa

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff083db70f4d049e299d3e30af7c4df/56532813280.pdf In PDF document text
- http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/fejofasasogebivi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/vozemiter.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/tubinobujolux.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://anglarill.net/userfiles/file/piwazasoxinoniwesuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38224469386.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/42368498371.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://grotech.in/userfiles/file/13186712442.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://rapet.hu/files/852110896.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556de0f65f334d6c2797fc41eef1e5f8/46727920541.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141eb2016b60---33067092363.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-01/f868ebc14934f01da46c37e57970b9a0.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2726537268b8656cbc8ba8804bdb2a55/49690765646.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/23091043373.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/didirevogijodugijita.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135866791478.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/kebinitexekal.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109061307166531.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/xesuvinuxelivopisus.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/merupomigedolopebuko.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://philboyd.com/zunusexufolu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/15080525121.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/giwekelixifuxizojidili.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c00721a275---rusenoxulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/tatezodivedepakiborag.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=marvel+disk+wars+onlinePDF link annotation
- 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000b9ad.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9AD	16532 bytes
SHA-256: `a5f2ece65421e1bb70b41d2da4aa5e866f3f3e6e718bbc384c6eb08c77c43559`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000e47c.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47C	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off0000fc93.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC93	10380 bytes
SHA-256: `7338c7d7d298c4a3959c8e048a552666507b038eeb7479324ddde96400a1ebae`

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