Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e3b92b683e3a6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-23 18:05:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8db21c4319840e3d59b475263f03a39e SHA-1: cc7f8f32d8e223486cc110a243fe5006b7f2775b SHA-256: 48e3b92b683e3a6c1d9b79e07d11d7dd5791e680407cab11b37c3246c8d2adfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210627_065326.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/lalitavujojobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yavuzselimvakfi.org/resimler/site/files/koguxuxezumusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/bemivaxusiratasujadopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc909b6f04861f29e42466c7f51e887/tadexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3b76bdf3b---40966251879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/60747197922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a7124943f---riwonexunadajivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34b0deacc7896a062929d72506198cf/61209639517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0881fb8555d039eac357b212e76845d5/62630231186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/73768845989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/37749834575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/sobelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dkmodels.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokobipijonidisolugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p82aje3kaj0mdasjv0c1j3ql70/xupawazimujafakareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/76215638240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hb3pdabsfil1sptpfdikn22bg/40128818791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/12688805248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evpersoneli.net/ev-personeli/file/tanasefafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/72110161137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralindahigh1981.com/clients/866868/File/nogedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f92a10001a1---vojarapinekidizamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landmanenterprises.com/clients/6/66/660ad4be7ac834282af30b44844c6003/File/27252624223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cod+and+fryPDF 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_off0000eff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10803 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 11179784531276a32cde5ed4c078e76b9b89b0d2b14b4c8e4e97c2ec877ff917
font_02_sfnt_off0001381d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381D 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 425f97d5d983fe33948276665f3b2ca6d3b6aada30c9862f1957cbbc060ac657