Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48ca432416f85805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:43:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 16357a9809e26381737ed3a15f87adaf SHA-1: 625303ac09d05087d59c6c9756983b4ffe7c05b7 SHA-256: 48ca432416f8580573f8960d12150ad80d134c06684e52c102dbc094d6985dfc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=plastic+methods+for+steel+and+concrete+structures+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://italvaping.com/file/18036438404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainerdhs71.com/clients/0/08/084bd9d902c6a1e3ee48703551c87841/File/mamomulisesomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097aaca218ea---99914055899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/tulibupalupimowusedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e6a583d0356c9da34f5a2faab49c3e/mimekiwazikedevaguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/88808517344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763acdc665e---59533794059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/33614274520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1d7ebe0383981a1b0703e0a751f388b/88774387877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775ce0aeeed---49474490125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com//app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/89316391487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edf60163f2---85987340073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6krtp9tc0dk7vv4tukhtfrjcf/35417430659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/50649417449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olneyjune65.com/clients/d/dc/dcef5d22f85ec69f5810ba62c2e8cf46/File/33347236170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2431fc907a6ab49feb674cd0bcbc620/94559178850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhtreo.com/images/ckeditor/files/75950068276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210616_213048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d21433ec593---lanudegapobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7556d726596d0da75342ef48586b335b/vipuxaxemuxivomopunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608104d967590---88256473581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e46b204f07---gamipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ddbd84a6c---16154341816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a26d38b886---84061324791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagolopivodawikodejuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE502 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD14 17068 bytes
SHA-256: a50699aae02308dae504cfeaa34b2a66648cfc33585dc40afbb34045b5d89404
font_02_sfnt_off000129d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D2 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 3f9d1a5b322cccf2737bec9e0eb728d6c1989f6976e32087f6abadbf0e62a39f