Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e01276f83f8481…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 839824155f9c237bb4fee3d46de07bb1 SHA-1: 92dc4b299ea8db98255e13fa6d8d91a1172ae941 SHA-256: 48e01276f83f848186febfa480f834e4eb3262bb5bf4db40fe9b97dc855092c0
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a 'Recovery secret / private key request', indicating a phishing attempt. Numerous URLs are present, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/18713928917.pdf
    • http://fluellentrees.com/clients/58222/File/18869834999.pdf
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75098976406.pdf
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulatututuwedasusenabon.pdf
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1453581627829455455b7bc08e6720c9/1531111485.pdf
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/kodumebomusisip.pdf
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/zodujoxurusejudijogukag.pdf
    • http://newfieldclassof1982.com/clients/6/69/69e49ffade321d977af769e13f9f004b/File/kipedejakupiru.pdf
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/nodijatikofifu.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7721c9e9f058a30c69f6f9e272bd8877/tabepoput.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac158ef08---vipapobolupotijavizato.pdf
    • http://adhunikjewellers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebupapitefanezovev.pdf
    • http://stepsforstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/92563212928.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df0a6025179---39883068245.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1afd8bced---62159059358.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edfck7erm744690tuceq84n9s2/natovogefisuwigubaru.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a8b9e5a1c---93548243359.pdf
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/6765042437.pdf
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/garekivebimexafe.pdf
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/3706613645.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b3d3c08cb---wugorufegukigali.pdf
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/bolewetanevenuvo.pdf
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/kidomimefobugagizudij.pdf
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/panujudutodokozizelasuzar.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d11820a12---jopovavu.pdf
    • https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/66824569909.pdf
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/gajodexomiker.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+reader+download+free+for+mac
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e33c.bin
2a565a72ef33b77ec58e8047355667f62555faeb756c2c097f691238884b4222
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33C 10368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab1.bin
4ab5225ea745b0322e9df47936dcb13bcfd9d768b94f8b7e9d8ae09aa3fc6c13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB1 17108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012715.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12715 16792 bytes