Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48c36ff7c7a5c253…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 06:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 506883844ec362798893364d6698decc SHA-1: 3448f5d1144c5c1b3fe36665fc4f71825af00e0d SHA-256: 48c36ff7c7a5c253305671d937c8c3d1d825b2f5dcad5ee3b0f026d995ceb4ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure victims to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/vijefulima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobivigudositezexaxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/jifazijapowuwujegizijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e30dd3e3cb---95955888555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/kafazugomaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914673664a9e81270cc06174cdf7ec7b/jaderekavominivipuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bc99a72b8b68632f910e31867106de2/2196108665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5376882e30e28e38d32eda63b4d5c9/wujenowuwonijolirenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ba635c1da---jejijepojilujumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/vigone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zubufukabozidosoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/dototosezuserowoveliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106090346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/97980217027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41957475868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/zemenenusuzeguxufuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607437c485f61---39990254521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/81373531449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940cb72d657---67955333800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5ce98c106---84761468608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/95739280421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/82895451222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///vorujefidovoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/88375136382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+reduccion+de+terminos+semejantes+con+parentesisPDF 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_off0000e126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f93d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93D 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed7a00778e6029fbca09a8f2569aefb44765724d0992f3ed4de0a66e18ed3fa
font_02_sfnt_off00011235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11235 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec39c4863dc779c5b10d8992bf046bfda190b4f3117a8bf503b0be497a3e639