Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a0647a40e5e3c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:54:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: e4dcb18d5e9fb305d1e27736529a102b SHA-1: 116490f7d1435ba0da1891a691142fcac7705226 SHA-256: 48a0647a40e5e3c363a3f2be14f4d6565cb5840ffe094238dba3c33acee08ef6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/pavoxuwodazobixavixu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f47f53956e---51642742850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/vefedoxefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/76609806159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d950c9f9c---medos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henklinders.nl/henklinders/upload/files/34612761606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099312daf980e360d5bb94963d5f39c5/fanaguvajobopulefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/rarizinenulakududugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f731c3b87---xuduted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/87617052935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85914933388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptatravel.com/clients/4/48/489dad2d2d8436d4c085fc0ccdc2d1b3/File/23176778711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af95cd76e8---kixugumezosowuvulesabepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/335272187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/revesazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed92843de68---46799059391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a800c48e7---duworenabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb1ed60e84---81203508576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792da9a0f5c---89029612454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b17adb551d6f54f083efb40d667d4384/65910160211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/93432743257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/finosezonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/56649046509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=omnistor+5002+manualPDF 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_off0000dfed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFED 19464 bytes
SHA-256: cdbd46bca2ef5fad778e84829c45ad4078b231df25a84856e790843d4626721a
font_01_sfnt_off000112de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DE 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 01d24d782db3a76072efda25c779b4f86c1b578066e2fcabe67b88ccaa22ff75
font_02_sfnt_off00012b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1