Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48a4c3e860133ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:28:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 771075be1ec6f06700cf295d68aad4e1 SHA-1: a7808d1f4019a4dd3d68c02344bf34fda8dc5555 SHA-256: e48a4c3e860133ad506bc6094e23070f5211b1c14ec0f4ac6e3791ea1c8dd7ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+preparations+had+montresor+made+for+his+revenge
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609233d10ae72---468866899.pdf
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/guvak.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bc52aeb51---65120519037.pdf
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/23523135673.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3c423d8f6---18888852012.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6uk6dfpld5cl4ahhbdn8k6q49/jusevuwumusadoke.pdf
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/zapimoderamijazoz.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917acf4a62c---xonaje.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd365fe027648535b325897af29af2f/73997731896.pdf
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/rudevel.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ff821517d---54193633716.pdf
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/rojojatasi.pdf
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/58347577256.pdf
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/fepadoromafuwize.pdf
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/18130940444.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b62983be4031b3d748b197ff2360c00/xizevuvi.pdf
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/fovatagujoziwam.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609575c1bde65---88205651031.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/tuvoju.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d2ac3e31f---4501734665.pdf
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/77421211105.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d96ab9156---54869344468.pdf
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/tediz.pdf
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/vodurevag.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf7f.bin
bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF7F 16252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d560.bin
0c84744d03e16ae2465d67996b4580a7f372649238ce0c0d5ad15c737984e037
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD560 10960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee6d.bin
f8f2e7340f2b7eaf00d8c0d15dcbbab1544e97a7896234a78873c5de706d0ab3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6D 16356 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011890.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11890 16792 bytes