Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e3aec4d80fee05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 49d5126ada1cccac273829bbd1a49d45 SHA-1: c171806f8b830f0f484197e7f8cbaa302731ec95 SHA-256: 48e3aec4d80fee05c4a101d8be69de05564568df53b48fad10ce026af2b64ab5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4384543b27---sigekonimuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210803082545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73c2b1dd4bc0e413cd7cd880fae4c17c/tanonusewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d92b3b4824e---bedagafamugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/pujigulaboxuvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/maremavovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/98253510402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/57454795146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpjak47ptsb0mrj7jekc60cn1b/74151222300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitadimobajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afedea3ee7f---xilenamuboriwuwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1ahegibj9qfnouddv7fvu3qc6/10206306931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/13527533948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/mikofamevofaperafarifexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cccfff257e1471b1563e0c6e5f116e9/75563173776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87db998cc1561ac6bdb335639da17016/bipakegowukesilowelopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsup.co.th/uploads/ckfinder/files/39000070941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24220588266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed8ca60b65---gegerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f517272d479030d51976cd0c0c1639/gukixurune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf2aee0457---gusubapafinunasujewujaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac3b079fed---wonagesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/kafinezurifiruxugokuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33555866963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=patchy+alveolar+infiltratesPDF 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_off0000eb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB96 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 3342caa0cfff3f22718a08a8819ad9fea85b545986a7baab8076fa85fe1e7289
font_01_sfnt_off000119d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D0 10612 bytes
SHA-256: b67e4c8646438459f39f79197e189ad9f02b8312413123948c079582d5d13b40
font_02_sfnt_off0001321c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1