Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe48d60b8fbf0e2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a852d1a7e17207f95d839dbcdaf98671 SHA-1: b176516354fb2aeafbc2edb3079c09398b1e91c5 SHA-256: fe48d60b8fbf0e2ff3f99833b8f27a9e0a3ecf9487898929b2b2e78ebf3e40bf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users, likely to a phishing page or to download further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=traffic+signs+book+pdf+in+urdu PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccabde4d9f---rudokopivosigula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3k6v3nk012v6mjojftm5o18g4/botavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b25078cc0c---61107053699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7626c7ec39---sisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cff59200d---vutizatizojazibulukemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46c7b361cf34cc47eeb228ea70a8181/neluladafuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9889e76ef5---13810373721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787cc02d2fd---18508808800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161125e88b7466---1634057864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/verazuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/26736658120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regalmotors-jp.com/js/upload/files/18740051380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/95387533765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719675b5e87---49774436877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tisuputih.com/contents//files/31797767988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/99039205339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyorszol.hu/userfiles/file/29577618414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/77737388073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfkhmomgjilu14fg25ap2f5q1g/43537967283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/2385571448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/70665887403.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_off0000feda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EC 21252 bytes
SHA-256: f208cfb80976215d6ed0e026f2e9b1a4bb111933278d4c33e85b9e9505a74aa3
font_02_sfnt_off00014d94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D94 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 40064064568078711e50e5b944d8a0a972dc6a9f370a5b8679d587b4f74552b8