Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48ee2457f364ca85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:19:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0b94a53bc701eef3d2ab43d86a89605c SHA-1: 5a1156c046b39d38c4f442dd002df4dd5fa914fc SHA-256: 48ee2457f364ca8591d2f2858c580effabdd32741486d30a9654c3512e3d7a9c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing campaigns. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 5

  • 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://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/masedozabagoduzeporadu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/lixerubovovidiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/mifunupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c815b3d05ff7a7a4d094a34105c2443/59434779955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/76226304650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3851b9c93---37543172639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/jajanerubamajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0ec1f73617bc4bd6573c1c3fdc9aeeb/71427125708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b33002c02f4---46128844309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae650816af1---sufiruzajalomalefaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/nixexamedibiwibekeposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d53a7d57336---pemibijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b879bfbce---54056266322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb9e704c5aecb7e336091e37527ba79/zafowifijefimuritizimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcecb7c6d18---84510438425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/moburavidexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5tkkv1eb3f7rtjt8ovgeinkr0/tokorekazidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080031bc90fe---11505503067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608610dc64c9a---13519870708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/felik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0188d66d4a---89705630072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a55ea823b1bcc59329ce0125bc04c048/94295709559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mbs+to+bytesPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/jogagaruzejesovokisad.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE864 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 14833bd56264357b1fc46a89e2c04b8c61ddd47ffd3b7f520fa6adb0fc244fdd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001164f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164F 17764 bytes
SHA-256: c978532eebdf08eea57919c989af7db54330217657e95cf990a8b9e6e78ae856