Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48ac1ea592f0d3e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 21c17b906927b1f6ac5cac13d2b22112 SHA-1: 15bd0c3597aced0ba5342a1ea6055074d6741a99 SHA-256: 48ac1ea592f0d3e4679609c7a790f05f6c5011fc5a606975e1bab09a13a8dade
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 0.9951

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 http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/gadizosudoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/32910475039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokapriz42.ru/userfiles/file/luzuwavoduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97088800538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l67pn68tk01n5t0o1ld0jgsgdf/zigubireni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapipowivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942776e7253---51202908157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13663368003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/39597449972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c6f712ab---zuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/wumalufedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josawubusakupivabururasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/fukulavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc7932d1aa---gutifibosutojutiripidebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/zudomikekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef3911de90---54585607474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210830_6E834CC6921987DD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/69791282752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcunkpp6kium656ucaubd4640/43005189800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/75653684082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08f3638b75---jikolijazozigafedugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/38472108516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/tabusofakusorowuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/1169218429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ethiopia+plastic+industry+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_off0000df4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4D 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 72b6f1e0b8f92c5fa6f45318504920b8231c714ce09ab1c8a408e98362d9fa97
font_01_sfnt_off00010d39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D39 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 43a495c184d07984212f00e8909081cc746ff83e7faa4ad515f294a5435ac3cf
font_02_sfnt_off00012604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12604 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1