Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e39290b01a59a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bad34b2dfb2bdcdfc30cef1ef71fc545 SHA-1: b91307cfb77cc0c283d1a44ab7f5a1ea5917743a SHA-256: 48e39290b01a59a4b49031cd72ff975371a9c7688b912df7f54ff010d4f602e6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links form a link farm, a common technique for distributing phishing pages or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761344dba49---gifuxewi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1050d03d7964cbd28c3df994571d898a/47905822432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/tagaborademoxobejukora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/88451675839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/6159636936112dbf1c3b50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_6AC06B3C2C693590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mooneyes.pl/userfiles/file/30110874388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/pujawabiduvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dae9222178---10932626040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/95555863088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058eb77c51e46e18b530d47933fd606d/bamiwopawegawugeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874eb9ae48e---xezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/66984567250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/24005203528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49fsuh41psccupr6nakikver1/netevumadezamaxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejosisibulemetimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/95424833322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/wenarilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/nibefasiloneka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25a18e1330e50ffcbd6b40ac3eb3073d/39526015312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d822f2507fb---xateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/85227306338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soyana.de/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83863250254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/lebusudegubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecabbc15a85---xokerisuxinafukujixebuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/73680744939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=manual+minilogue+xdPDF 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_off0000dba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA7 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 792ef97b2ded003bcda3c486832afca78bd8c00b4274335121d28b111fbd130e
font_01_sfnt_off00010ab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB7 10420 bytes
SHA-256: a223ccc56dbd228be81539af704301229e1baf8bde46c6723286adb207aea743
font_02_sfnt_off00012202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12202 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1