Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48583be74a94be23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 18:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1b8d73a39364d7e7d13f1eaf0b65fbd3 SHA-1: ea40d4199efdf4c7b360450b02f32f370f89ed2a SHA-256: 48583be74a94be2337e8c76ae8fa29b5d5d43160bc7cbcdf20021dfae1ef11ef
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a malicious PDF designed for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=be+the+exception PDF link annotation
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/repamutiredate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69874161499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/72918573850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a4fb6f822c5010165785a6121e4482a/befozutojerajumeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/85777310483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc3ad3cacf7b58b855ccb6ca6894554/tiregibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/50234165185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/nitetilowigoximatekigifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84961525822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/tiregofiranudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/fifukisafejuluvojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/73720632988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c34417c77---34969216225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexus-custom.com/js/upload/files/23466044186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/lavasixizumojalija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reginahajo.hu/_user/file/toxenozefobiribov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/33655501281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/rawejenanivaragenufaralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-10-1/20211001231339611742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euchebnici.com/img/file/6966600736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/dibitudoparobavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614876cf6a078---volisoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reginahajo.hu/_user/file/14708059082.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_off0000b8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8CB 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 928f7328db9992e910661199c4bb376f1d730dfd3e8d8ddad233edb6438f1b50
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78D 19644 bytes
SHA-256: 5d3a00a493ad7214fe285a8224ab4efc2847a78f03c3074337269a7663f9be13