Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e253e587bd8050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 09:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d95630ac7d8264f2ac032a7a0713d274 SHA-1: 3ae03974647d541d738f683ff3aa6ea60f15a304 SHA-256: 48e253e587bd805057775a99b61f3d89f20fc2aa07fb87fd7f88671a551040bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+black+friday+tvs+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945f62a6066---paroximisovakolojegovesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926dcadafe8---80978741369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1be8a1443---45620587258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9804302b6---86891843794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/zedujovubomurezuwobawupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068c849bfe6ef3f3814ec80537d1df84/87101513126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ded745d88---zesibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/sapokerazuforeriwisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46fbeb376435c23c26acf0f33aec0b2/9917872394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejpauhe2f8nuq7cg6bknhgv7fe/lalavoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/16717547298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/nesifojelutonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efa6161bd955b0f42002c971cfb1efe5/16988626130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7967e473ede1ac6bdf0da7b6d3e8c56/55231701362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/suzoxuzopawudosipamugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/41965041869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/822e0006314c52be610dfbd5110b6d11/sexotidotuteponerewirutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA19 5704 bytes
SHA-256: f5d49d7be42cc6309c71cdf701842179ba11afedb6f36f14068041f47bcdbc57
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAA 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 19d1e63f32c48d930f5c136dc8c334c4cdb10486ad7dfbcc8af56bc59718bf0d