Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48473c8d808bce91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-08-03 19:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 20986c02baacfe9414aba7e84d6470a4 SHA-1: f603a9700345bd6fbe7e0ee2624a1d0e2c0c4747 SHA-256: 48473c8d808bce910c65c7c5d0f6c787732213aac6bb44185e8524693a72f6e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+to+print+something+at+ups PDF link annotation
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/7568427677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d7538397d33b976c4afd9b88cc52c4/xusulepivajogopidelaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///13881637986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5782f8e021685081c02518b203b343/22446868120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c0k3iongqcku26o7linghlp3/kivemiboxedinomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/fewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/rexagapiwozagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/64050244060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbc88e4c46---96676701486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61313052212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/76222450176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/78904258908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/61703346020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/povagose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7309dd7e53---zagawubupimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607679a8cf126---kinunagebarirejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindahsatu.com/contents//files/44013415580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/sotatozavekevanozisukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/pokexofezadufelereru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/rofederafelokikibawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/73660263278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/binikisalutemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kchctp78hqubp90uqtntptuhb0/xetubomisero.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_off00010b1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1F 17540 bytes
SHA-256: f46d5290cab23b34901c23b68533ec7003323dfdf80c88d4cdd454f0b93d317f
font_01_sfnt_off00013910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13910 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15127 10952 bytes
SHA-256: d5834b93dbbda0e43f5bd3eabd5609951f540176f7a0ef2fe92c6d9bca4d656d