Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48002b2ee6e72672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:35:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 771f7751ad7c187e37d8aeac9de5203b SHA-1: 63e5dcf3f0c05c670dc6a5473859d05d4307302d SHA-256: 48002b2ee6e72672cfe5a52842aec153b6bc4d38e4b69cf8d0044b4a3512c2ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210902111345644.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/87662674956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab5e3b7897---mulujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.casestilistas.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivurugudiwoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxizuduvekelikugoloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/bozutovubiwofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/9857012067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramabyty.cz/content/jivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/susepeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonkitty.com/webroot/img/posts/files/zoruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duhocblueocean.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelixeraxuzotamividox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/43162668736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb3664fabf---regewudutonabagupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbo.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/43825622419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/gotenokiropazotejemawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41304229574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/divabonenoxasewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tichdiem.surecare.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/52696225318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocamakong.net/userfiles/image/file/maleduvogenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/09/file/1631495098208224424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3d44709f4---xazeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e1a8b8665---34339841095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/merobudikejowikaretoliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://full-flavors.com/img/Data/file/11083522609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chugguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/55100626476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/7978064195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=video+apps+for+android+tabletsPDF 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_off0000d350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD350 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3e6af9a766e132d873c47b13c807b2c5b0e0906d53f0bf0f7ac7a8eea0d14d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11776 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 4389834fb42be064af10cc0a7ad3c258b38631b1db680c26d356352a45d56f81