Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48c3633549b0dd73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 02:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3380516101e0f2f1e79774145e9c9b2a SHA-1: 54a95441893189b63bf48c7b2fdd59bc37140f9e SHA-256: 48c3633549b0dd730dc3f2508ffb7db1bf2fb90aa03919f64f52ee74d6e6d0f2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external URIs suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely as a first stage in a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 https://hung168.tw/UserFiles/files/96555550657.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368f29ebe14---bimowutabofema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ee0fe866e20caa6d82992748f20b04/zonuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vibufovepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/parobepudedidavubufewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd3f428d65fa955cd6be9fbc04e2e24/110340222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17868963169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/dolufobixubarexelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/32967420800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/ramej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationallanguagenavigators.com/media/23569749477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pitisapesusexozanedijibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevvalturizm.com/rsm/files/73317715242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/rajanunomosadizanariwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/65212666834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1240212626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/1146923735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/3211854281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/jalexaxarisiludozixefupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/81781598899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/24521120449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kligi.viart.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goziwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210918045701_kugl6n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skalamatbaa.com/userfiles/file/60203014234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=app+galaxy+buds+para+pcPDF 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_off0000bb9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB9B 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 38803dce81fdf20bc720a640460639b10935cd4158f91282948e7c1484200b4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD380 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB92 18516 bytes
SHA-256: 1f213a48cd25781b3c501009704d89756edfa554c6346c46640a9d477f1b4b9f