Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48a98a7a9820a97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 69f3b58fb03cdc9ee85999cb13f4c6b7 SHA-1: e8e406ea153c312d464e3150268bde0dc9659c75 SHA-256: e48a98a7a9820a97fee657171a56ad3b25177216324d5f71d249d10272d026c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The primary goal appears to be phishing or distributing further malware through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=edge+write+on+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/gabosogebokozimufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0891208dd245ccd5549dc80801b7ba54/10911366732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahlkoenig.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tukeworuligivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1a9437d9a4539ab7188b5ac64bae2a/26309527324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612556252afb1---vogadurudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm82i62ker4jb52tvq035bkh3c/wajezurimawusilafojelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/87716339314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/nobubelapiwopawosirasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b794c8f2e8c---88777574839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/84109968632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d571afd85---newalupatizojuzubasibufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/bevovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e22b190efe---sutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609117ddd9f2d---wepajurumaganatudubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f260f4645bf---52365273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/39161630211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/22696060415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b1eb33f4b---tofunivizuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811f4dc6499---27108129018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95ff4e6dc2---wezefuxedigakimipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b5043c148---37565322794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/33089968724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/98796208480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae392db43317c114cbafd8d4e9a767a/47910470701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/mafabosanabarerufuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/ruxunujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54o3a94cd98tdsre3hm2qn68rh/selugefeditepejun.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_off000114ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114ED 10368 bytes
SHA-256: d54dbe86a3c2283a851ef81f9494512f6a61aaa584b89996c776bc4cf72e0f66
font_01_sfnt_off00012c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C46 20188 bytes
SHA-256: ef16e4a9adff4fd63cbf4cfbbfe9e7accee3472e7f14884921730fbbe1676aa1
font_02_sfnt_off0001607a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1607A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1