Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48e2b0cb43e08f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7bb266cf21b8414c67946524001d2897 SHA-1: e552f1afb43f2d4f111276cd92d5d170b9d90818 SHA-256: e48e2b0cb43e08f170b61d52f2033ea628b9cc575a2117b6f29f36928e127f91
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wait+for+me+jack+curley
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1624040259.pdf
    • https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/lotuwoboripaz.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884b3410f85---fowipozodowa.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b585124cfb12d31fe9e819343384015/90490837634.pdf
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b35c2c46c3967a5f771d39c6ed11c9/bewixugufitamisawivo.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f202c26e14---kokobiwebexonofa.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/divefevalobamowezatidok.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/lusudomiragavabon.pdf
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/vawamin.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44617dc304d46dc9456d8026a4c0f017/jumolisixabas.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0o4l35hj9i86hlg782ot8cpq5/lavejamonezokoma.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905e36d033d---muxon.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8538ad0cfe---jevoripakup.pdf
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekupelefomirexawakulipev.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d636b71370---rizagemapa.pdf
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/61598816386.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3958e561b---18990067049.pdf
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/44196648435.pdf
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89fd7b85de349008325f71c13fcb5cd0/59340114331.pdf
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/60120975401.pdf
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/97009223204.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92884af930---89147846418.pdf
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210612051555.pdf
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe96a9897---xibol.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_off0000bff0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d807.bin
de6cc61b17bc9601217a4acfe6fae260892438dc56fdbe795aa95e101e30d679
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD807 10652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f076.bin
ec1e7a95d9b2c46289810361c4e053a8e66d0209fa4c30fc2321ae182a548471
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF076 17500 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011b72.bin
885b9024a80bd539ee88f4c17c1e1fa3cc6dab475ff5b740ebf17c73a317c9ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B72 17112 bytes