Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48bf21f3e2918d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 99b699207c823cfee372b860339eccd5 SHA-1: 29623d1f620c9ab0af5090453fd68b5b8bc48ee0 SHA-256: 48bf21f3e2918d19d9fa7e2342ba81f625e20b809509d56bc20db9d7b8b91b47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs are likely part of a redirection chain designed to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/77857265038.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ccce95048---40229303647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumobefikexesunizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/vitixiludalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4938723c3ff0cbf8e4195b3160ae7240/rirexosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc55caf8810ac2a28ba54697cb7e1df3/tajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p1is344qfqbt83173e9thkv8v/jokifinexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40267915934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b621b1ccbc---86432010739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/mokewuxitorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/jezopukoparogilelaroxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836c3457980---jebaxupafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/pawamebenupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/wivasixedesotumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73562e72652e5c7e12581355c6d3714e/mawetikafigekobuvasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/91328054455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d496ca323---56788630816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b65caab9ac61003b3bf95625523bd0/noziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/938080761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-20/20210820060854627952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/lalifono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcfc2c563d---99239121474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallapietamarchisio.it/userfiles/files/zavaligavejatawarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda415ab5c07eccc7f51e2d4c92021fb/kexemulegidipivutinazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/petilebigifodizagowola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+light+pdf+reader+for+androidPDF 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_off0000cf81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE798 10828 bytes
SHA-256: ed77eaf91c6525ea8aae7f770599ae644541a83ba34308c2c8ea719f49facf8b
font_02_sfnt_off0001004b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004B 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 2db449dc623e18df1236006054d77906942c4cf0f3092695cd7bbe8e6ee19864