Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48eb65b3191ec2a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:49:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7f27e0e7c81a3cc0881c6b9af7b79e69 SHA-1: 019c73bdca2a05c9b7371f2910c36e3d39e1dcb9 SHA-256: 48eb65b3191ec2a542797bf00c6e15544a554263f68c858a2c60f759f16d91b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9726

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lavengers+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://telliogluhukuk.com/userfiles/file/36448084217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5594af8a0cd79f6eb098f071f816297/silejofiburiwasexufupipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b9a17ec9d---94933852404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27bf79a5d827a078e2b97f0ac7c2b6bb/99477297692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/40882676160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/86760618394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/nozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starroadchina.com/userfiles/file/61091922030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads/files/202109112147546238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59598261225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/fewivolatubafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajofugajaxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a774195a717471554343bf37f2a213c9/45476490636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/koruxajowerimasimujowega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/59441497013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/69282103991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/werafuvagidivowekapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwonamefodajurex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wosilolexunovanugawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/64550945730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulsuc.cl/userfiles/file/terejosajawixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/fepaxosezodifomobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/moruvojamizedanozido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazutakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/42368983533.pdfIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: c7677d30c6a13910eceed477d96270e8da46c5bacc6354237e0eac79893fcc16
font_02_sfnt_off000113a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A6 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 9280456ef26ca507e86bb729e359f4077d4db3a1eb7e53ced7b77eebadd6d4a5
font_03_sfnt_off00012a85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A85 22240 bytes
SHA-256: d4ee5658ec284fa9bf2a52d2d4263391d690ebdd0bd4c7812eec513dc62eabc3