Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48822d065977b624…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f5823ca30bedbf276aae86b2253da73a SHA-1: e6550b5cdcfceed0946ce0b89963adb4318966de SHA-256: 48822d065977b624f68d2156603fad5ce7146b18f5434c59e24270b3e1d85da3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, using an image-based design with clickable links to external sites. Heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+computer+security+2011+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac2027aecd04dcb64df4edaa49f52cf/rijananuwedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um9gm0m7logt414mpu8rhl2c27/wemuvokijunumefipesaminan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10bd96872d---83551524964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0b96f35bf087edd8b1e3517b8afccd/356506928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607576cc38216---bepotaselewadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a85ee3164b1621c89b676711129dbc7e/4363699666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50631137766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ec750df1b47fccfda1ea317555f954/95605157926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/55397097741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/godafuvulezawaroxanaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/piwejizetilevilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/82380379365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/51122483133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/226947423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/86556010904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0acc59b69a56c99fcea6d9c59907c1/47961704121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a463295164f---58883168485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28767219533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/786fc769c504e885f0a128ec4aa36a73/55870636858.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_off0000afcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFCF 13852 bytes
SHA-256: 3b730966e89e99eaa78691207d0f0c1451faf062ed36f1b733ad5e4a55baf16d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA0E 11032 bytes
SHA-256: ba61ac5e3ae97aded103c847bb304848d4d87f319b557c513e617a862cf2702a