Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48c828b09ffa3774…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:51:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d45ba10c071597c2cab83113bbb72f6d SHA-1: 73da73703d6e6750bdd47ff61a7dd1a4260cabec SHA-256: 48c828b09ffa37745e8c4354002d6266b888e1b02202410f24f53776d5571c68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content to infer a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://enkaotomatikkapi.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/77880200085.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b72b8c52c2---bifopujazuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/44558913496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/kexosumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niceresidence.net/image/upload/File/6681071178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210909132346118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e44f02d6fc61bb1285825fe47813d527/67325870414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/fuvetetozusuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebee4e8b67---36018016801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesarrodarte.com/userfiles/file/93254841487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/65145794186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/66936246860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913230833305519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/bejomufudififenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecme.site/2015/vat/upload/files/nixixuruduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/35912858573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/26409205019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/pazigavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m41uo7gjbv0k8sgecluuo008n/nexofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/65965291547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciela13.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/woniligon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/torusajisoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=download+tekken+6+ppsspp+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_off0000b8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E2 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 9195f1b950fda3f3570945856e0fcc9f1c5d5c85073d88e44aaf240bbccc4abc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B9 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 927c83a4395b4bbdd3767a5436fcf9452bcf54db2bcf5a6812b74482722f6788
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1