Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f48bbd23964963d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 073030d19a6c8b7ee8be51f69f59a48e SHA-1: 3f4e021710fe977c7cc91391a0e33213a0acb7cb SHA-256: f48bbd23964963d43422a18478108d8424ee869e264e5f43368f857a7ccef9f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a malicious intent.

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://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1cb6550045---67581225308.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju3abqpl2ifaposf2jdoc40a88/vemebepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/bogoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2398867de---83821074057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b6abc9cd2---mikewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/gimibekorobukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356cm9daj7idh7jar1kak100r5/tujorumenimagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/kapevutulewixubotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210526181240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/mevexokuxumajudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafe9027ab02d07ce84a4fc740bfc2f2/wunekabazuwumuxokomokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibaxerasanodigapagajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/xupojekigimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmtnfak75duhhfl0v5dn8ast4pmtgae3/93674557802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whippets-au.com/clients/7/7f/7f5032e15db821a993a8146895416847/File/52790691711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/zowuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/66841900402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/89450242375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/9938558631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s130ut7dc87l774mvh7o0j02j7/sufozokuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sajezuzevodujekowugifupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ucvbkeussh2fsr9scnr32tmld/wumexojikajupumujoxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vr5ev4j7278a56r3bktrss1ma/nepaxogozanimopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bbf2c7257---vuladomakidoxedamagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+android+18+sexyPDF 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_off0000ea75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA75 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 9d4a10c057442f4b1a9da8f174c5bb0f4daf73a914938e948289414cc626bf73
font_01_sfnt_off000103c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD5 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac4f50ef4cca36f042a3b2c371d98419c45be4d442baab714696973fe053614