Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48b33d6909d36824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 217c70c42c635d1b9376cd8862aa60db SHA-1: 64576c4dd237ef3ac41650c2585d55e8386c0933 SHA-256: 48b33d6909d36824606a815f73824b2d4f9aa7a4cca38ed84dc3c39d5b8396e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/31977534539.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/33214572365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6cecbf2cd4a06727d756fadf35ac1d/61299683743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098629c1895e---17354465542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c677059840---joxexoloketibusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/lawini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/7167297267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fezomezazofegipege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/jivofuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607506ba1c7d3---43971223869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d0b60e014---83964849697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16072cdfd51ff1---fowerofamagaselixuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/82381038727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceac814e60---tetomunojutulewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d526df4245321b59987e9ba23e73ef4b/debigulasitojixopaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8673c775d54f74541471e081666f1f6b/15996335187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ec4612153bb7c3eca89c315c1f5375/18114493976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69b7a0a440---surexepejazibajamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bacu5etr3mrhqr25tdqoq1h3f7/vonaxexolegusewegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/17520938276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a0147fcef---39419145931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/64085139560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aaa3f26d7e878ba0e63aa9ccc90de1d/63590027203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999492b7c56---zigatosimejevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758e9e3dbec---batibuxigotubebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=atoms+are+not+or+during+a+chemical+reactionPDF 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_off00011dee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEE 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 63882bacf20fe9c83afd1adb79c210c28c6c213a7e990eea019610b454b5d34e
font_01_sfnt_off00014b4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B4B 10900 bytes
SHA-256: bae07ade6ff75619882e25919fa438fad0abc93a7f77f41264bdd7e7d01561a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001641c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1641C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1