Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a2560b31a3216c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:25:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 39c1a65dc29954737e4d1a74fb04d1d9 SHA-1: cbcf64e19d72d8ab36120ba475189444cd430738 SHA-256: 48a2560b31a3216c75d8edb9e8389bdd99e905608f7481bc748e1f0e40292ebe
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 0.9833

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://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9829d7a1c49d60d9074d99e97f451dc/fobesatafik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inggeo.eu/userfiles/files/49686949063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161216b936ffc2---78645305702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rjmarr1i308o9a0grdq3ih23f2/zuxivijimavaneget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da58a638fa---61965294749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/junomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0fa0deff956d862d4cd9946f06ca8cc/lasubegijezugofunosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a996cfdf834---67660725063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/vorizemiredaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace829274f1---34232834429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969b26533c5bdf640db1a83e280b2a08/96175084602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eqkklc3gr59trvi3f41lrnbqk/wonuwuxarujiketaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84840890867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/vatowaduzizevejufepuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/sizivivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45943170284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/65177191097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/99326868173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcde1b5c05---vebakugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03b3a644d5---99695499523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/jokewigigusofibodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/rogofubega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/kupadibeniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/tajatawaduxagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/juzejapobaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8r57tguq2mnqn0jfviqe3u676/98596023074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxajiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+technology+in+education+essay+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A7 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 4e03f15f6c8642c584249d2b5b514427d11b61ba99bc418bef861466eb6aadbe
font_01_sfnt_off0001100f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100F 11232 bytes
SHA-256: f1ef97e9ae733810036eaae71ecc36ecfdc6a050908a6403c4fecf5412cea172
font_02_sfnt_off000129fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1