Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48ef470d7eecdd44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-10-07 19:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 469746de58ade104fc9db654e34c42bb SHA-1: 511bab8537eff250f8d701842a7034988e58470b SHA-256: 48ef470d7eecdd44ccfb222e0870b00df3452efb072ffcd11ffe2fcecf3d4db3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall detection strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mugadusosiwabubepuras.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tomasmrazek.cz/userfiles/file/fidefobesasakarukasofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acmfashion.vn/uploads/files/26110442988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schturman.ru/files/files/mewipobenuxexopolotekame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20211001233407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161516a53c5710---77094675094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336e19c921d---fojigizilokive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23771034754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/gujebifumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/fukubajusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/nuvijesipifofowalugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corkpotters.com/images/kotubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/71922201141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwajatefivovudogusuboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eed1ada54e---wurevimedewupufopifuzewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-jia.com/uploads/files/202109081815553123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wronba.pl/uploads/wysiwyg/file/55267911785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9hgeda1peomop7r53lspii32j/fujisutopibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/pabigikuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15056155201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161508d0b4f798---14284049562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/mezetupejitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20211004195247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=troy+ounces+in+a+kiloPDF 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_off000103c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C4 20248 bytes
SHA-256: b42264e952cf361c5e716edbf1aa1a7bd9380651ff739f21b857c42932c48055
font_01_sfnt_off000137e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15000 10392 bytes
SHA-256: c6202c14c53fd2a653681f26dfd17a660695e64d59e7111810a8f4a3d94ba4b0