Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48215a66f73e1167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fc3ed4dfdeef5ad6adff3e054ef7b5fb SHA-1: d522e6c03fa6fa85b1c4b2b77438f9128bf7b136 SHA-256: 48215a66f73e116762aefdc4172f73b45d230d058bd4fe4853a5f7110c524742
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable or compromised hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download jdk for unity' UTM parameter suggests a lure related to software development or gaming.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://ykitraders.com/UserFiles/file/fusofanowegonakibafun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/bimenimebizagakigereniwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/86214797815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4594012474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56747966217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/85735725935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/milexemulotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/39357360006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aodaixuan.vn/app/webroot/upload/image/files/28712120540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10995629863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///fisugulijokif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78694674313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4589152f6000a6b698d70cdc4e0305/83038875504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/gakobaxejonimulafaxoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/47548488619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/22298170405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/magowufafavoviralobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/rifipoxivebogorabipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/41495162494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/75850083066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131842b53fe1---25091735622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143a9ac2f670---78400228708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+jdk+for+unity+2020PDF 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_off0000daec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAEC 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 78ee0c6f3949781eff3f296e317750824de19762b238bc9d7b0611814de91e04
font_01_sfnt_off00010a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001223d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223D 10812 bytes
SHA-256: c3271e67b96e605a0d006b25d819e0e797a49d96e25cd2adc565188ab279301b