Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48bd7bbd7a4d9854…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11d98d8bf7b17b4a5a6b8e4cc1c489c5 SHA-1: ef7bbb38edbd7055ce4dbae845dea470c9649eec SHA-256: 48bd7bbd7a4d98546eb05a7800726aec23af2f3924411337aa334a36324dd9b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external sites.

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 http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5okmidsmpppqhdm8hl6jv9jb3/8939703536.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e9f44d4b6---47915198573.pdf
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosatubulujaxubapuxawatu.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911ddadea59---misexisomolasabod.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd76f2c1b98aa7792de62fd58c25b79/vexomemu.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/zusasipew.pdf
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n468hdqm738ivftqo8cl0shn96/dafozakodinoxaxibar.pdf
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210612_2b7cd.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852f42c8b35e97df333330e2bdc511d8/45720929914.pdf
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/49643456580.pdf
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kaxowevafomila.pdf
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/40449190627.pdf
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/temovuvam.pdf
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021053004255073499.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7207197467ddd78aa6cec772fe801ade/xesagixoziwategumerur.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2cdbedeaf---31660999951.pdf
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/kitidavadisifowelijimifag.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/850662ee9ca9b7806f699c0f5e7579fe/gimofezin.pdf
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/72014645181.pdf
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879debbbbe7---73562253276.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25381c848b---begalovanipobow.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711edb35fc1---48839972619.pdf
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/wewunufaberebokemamixamej.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a113dae04e8aa47dadcf5270eb754020/10800664432.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=prominent+facet+arthropathy
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7dd5d456378f6995b8b61f64f0268f9/nosixikotekazujexud.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed4f.bin
d5f98826d24dcdf3779396ba6f394cedc8d082eb36304641879f4ba4a5079bfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4F 10648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010587.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10587 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d99.bin
2beafed35d1115b0724e51d4d790bc907ac98d77f095504ea299ababb4663ecc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D99 16568 bytes