Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48afa5830390ccc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-20 11:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 98984d4c482ac914b337feaa76ead6f6 SHA-1: f295d136d7ed5ec7f54960ea8a6f6fe9eb45c027 SHA-256: 48afa5830390ccc28473d7a932261e447f52666f2f994b1140912587f8d565a2
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF is detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and it impersonates Amazon to lure users. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate it's designed to lead the user to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+pubg+hack.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://starsunited.at/upload/files/1377821197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70b9445e9e---ludasugozevukedeboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/3004249482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd36049438---80846982225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e86ceb1a26---vowoserinitaxadizixiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhigh1970.com/clients/1/10/106e6567aa8bd3cecf4080670b11bd10/File/14876809232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927fbc9a1dd---fovadelonoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842653d999d---jalisopanuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4d8beb37b1e9bbfa432899d3387150/vitapumoliruwopunarete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2d30d71832370db25a07b53b134bfe7/jerutovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/paxirijenerijisuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hoa34ikcpra8kef0mcgmq2ptqv/37855050216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/72606671696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jp-photo.cz/soubory/files/26187893669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/56558059649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/40568406793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc43e7b887---rozowemudose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/mudawumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01381d94be---42396439513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/bepofegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+pubg+hackPDF 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_off0000f657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF657 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 83720365c8817b4205a5c47daf042e8aa28b25f9fbdc68a9e5c5b9b84a81329c
font_01_sfnt_off00010e36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12648 29076 bytes
SHA-256: 2686284fa6f9c1f1edb0107d768b7456be41340b807c9d7f1a94bb4d65c15519