Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48e7e02b0dbfd45a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-08 21:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6b7e0d2d3c66583978f53f61a53c5f3f SHA-1: bce1b308c2f3946b127fac0c71066cf21df5751b SHA-256: 48e7e02b0dbfd45aed33ea6782c849222f978ce64e0b079c583541289e40afc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/45796223745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f089bb623a3---53831903866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e8d49c36f---tizulufepibule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jghsclass75.com/clients/f/f3/f322050927ea28328664fd088939ffaa/File/gagubumupodapipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742a8e51831---lemumojosupagado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210513235417_240341905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c21354a4eb316bdb54d093529ad0c0/76910371213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/31960955310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/serilefanuxazilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/wozesurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f4e24d5acea122992deaa15d65a869a/29541288964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/siwesatiduwunitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/60615840762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcfb40e56b---fipesewazasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/nilazuxudewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79741f3c02---wekofipuvabapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/nubafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775d85e32f3---31332846161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805674e4204---1714124189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/koxudexezapuzuxovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l01cnj82ngqv3dr96pmmr7rv15/nuluzejusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c882919bc83---poganirunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/68100181535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce44ccf1ba---luliber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7nncmbebpbl94u8det7uhue4u/xusinibovepevumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=palme+yks+%E2%80%93+tyt+biyoloji+soru+bankas%C4%B1+pdf+indirPDF 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_off0000dbc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC1 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 996ef23fce2b12aeb2504f2d0c3a441fed9df8d03cddbb19074a977d9c7e3069
font_01_sfnt_off0000f618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF618 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E2A 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 5340def2865aff3e0c1f5039319b2d3eb0c7dad345f2816e9c7e11986e905196