Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a7fb63984a3be2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 063b45f6c049f38d7d652af6b876f2c8 SHA-1: f4e46497684b5a798e6f05d36241eb106716dcf5 SHA-256: 48a7fb63984a3be252110fe440e776e6693ebfcc5dd2095fe7cf567e500d0153
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=helichrysum+medicinal+uses PDF link annotation
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/jawavoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d68dc6407c2bfcef8a03b31abe19da6/24937091208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/kusarudujigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094583709888---genotutasetuzasaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tasoxibajawemixoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gsb07se31bdefdu1l1cuot9b4/xifaxirefuzekemewegasuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48638682837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/vopabajoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dd72e0925---zomimajafegekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/rebuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b630f13d2122aee2d040ba178e018d1f/20921905168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3f6913ca37b98b4a638042273e9e63b/81967322080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/gotasafimivivazunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tphpmhnmh3fdpt0r7bnupid1oj/75407324570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbq15t44oqrfoaecf4elok4ubu/nudimoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059ffb48ceb4e8af44a17b04129ee117/nesajotafiwumuxele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e9d5887b2ce778e8df90ec2473de376/tizanumuzefagoxebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/rogiduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cci100.com/clients/57496/File/52020003815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ed13a19e4---3474905941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c087789e358---16336172157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-25/20210525040513544141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72476bb7f4---mojokewefiforakanomunevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/foxazigidipevugewo.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_off0000e883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE883 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 37316b0640d2f7c2afe059047fded8e044ea613d0f9b6062d255e690cfa3d629
font_01_sfnt_off0001008e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A0 16532 bytes
SHA-256: f7c5e6f643f958a47b3d7dec81115404662479feefe5efe28a4dd950de6cae7b