Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48eba1e47c1799d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 89147ec2ee1bf56c59054806d7677cd0 SHA-1: 9ff76617fc551d320d4b06cf3b88ed0fc92174e6 SHA-256: 48eba1e47c1799d348c04466e078ee5e9f957bb108dbf433e23130f1056a9536
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this file as malicious, specifically identifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e2b4833527adfc1b8327bfb9663345/galaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b486c325dc9---70493754781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp77f5oh798vklnl26dvvivkh1/jiduxominuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/wofobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9nom7j8eskvc1v906rgg6g2lk/gafimosilepubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/49624142951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/mokivupufepujugudujasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756ae57c5f2---62756566127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/90489524178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca70ffe04cd58e7183f6566cf76d8ef4/10983350613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/42572912659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/43722491190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/98532336291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/gejojufuloduvufaxirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990ccbdc028---femota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/belekevadaborun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/42319203732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foa3cd8ubf2ka8jqrjftnjs35f/sopixuvepolagekegigarule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082de61e0e21---muradak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16aa9f8ba8cf2d2adccf6e0366fc0def/kevajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d61ee05bd1---mibojibugimorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e232d0d20---67052160379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmt1ff66cpprg081gd53tsahm0/xageniwuwajibivuvilatujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=place+decision+in+marketingPDF 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_off0000fdec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11603 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 0680a04d6430a82d9d3a41fcaceeec89ca1f562a9d8627b9bafd648a6f4ac871
font_02_sfnt_off00012ead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EAD 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 740a49b2e8562d02be7eea55e9e97cdb06910277d21f2568dc717a27efc5dd9c