Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e748a53a99b310ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:18:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 34a9192ff1e88ff9b664216cb4ed6141 SHA-1: bb53c45ee615f15c9dac08e6a8942d75092b559c SHA-256: e748a53a99b310ad51aa662f10adfc5fef80fc179546a946f25c9b3ab8549461
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or for SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/41595312332.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/24771602213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a583b8bddd8d7c55a9ded2bf1cb69a4/50123775879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c40c5805e2a12a9760da4ea752f46784/14815099614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sospapa24.com/lib/ckfinder/imgupload/files/voguviweroriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/zetesuwotunupararupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/29928967700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e976cb4d84---sekoxovorisunebagepokuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/23406715437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/83537794876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/71266394849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b1306b4b5---99924185344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/vefimevolematatoxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/soxanuxifasuxupuwezude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bca44c6bab1952743a881dae1af4b71/dexakunevobamabofepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/dikaxegujelopujifosasowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d62011d8b76485aadd4aaddbf22652/kujonevarimamalisiduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e447396b5b0---33349857645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/sewofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatuloxagonodolifadatute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c06764f99e---diwimavumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/28459408259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7c8d479ce---69469779445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=marcela+koury+pijamas+2019+pdfPDF 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC749 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 0dd4331dd2773456a4d574d123056b5047b733e3dec8ad7d3a8ad713d70f6388
font_01_sfnt_off0000f516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF516 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 187175c6c8bbbf7aba079031b65a9b336045a51bb63cf7c266f0ea50dc1dd3c8
font_02_sfnt_off00011048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11048 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1