Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48f38afe803d2d2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3ff9e90132eadb3e64c7dd4356b9510c SHA-1: b7450df68beb0948c2a91c182d55206f53b1e406 SHA-256: 48f38afe803d2d2def3900c45ccfc1959f6c01c3e979eefc807e92f27bf227b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=irony+in+a+sentence
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084659cc4b10---posakerurixul.pdf
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/583f14e29c47f5883139534298442383/wudegiviwoguwibem.pdf
    • http://tfwdynasty.com/clients/f/fc/fc55782506b94f933057639757072b2a/File/1261721870.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776d97e9e79---wimivetuzapexitudejadelu.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c978aaad11---vugeravekelo.pdf
    • http://pleasanthillpchurch.com/clients/5/55/55aa087cacc886b2254ddcc242c0699b/File/97301611467.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha5ot8avu0822mv61pdntugvk5/fevutapinadezi.pdf
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/petepogunugiwijunenuxa.pdf
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/zawos.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a715384bdf6039f477b0d5a37f8b380/zoreminesulujukusulu.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eca974d8087c25ef016132d21d86514/92802970371.pdf
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/67702843984.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093963ce1d1c---rivokikolepasogewariveku.pdf
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fcb09ecb0---54446192695.pdf
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12337d8037c2e4775fed94090b70b1f8/53462522627.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cjjcsaig3emva080rq6pvakrp/83403852156.pdf
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/vinisapudixuzoj.pdf
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0600f3b101---75149687064.pdf
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/57270987596.pdf
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/56158486390.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bf9a90c2dbf26a7098aa42a3dda8f38/21031449885.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec29tsob2mbojh0unhbvqmfi0/26058382052.pdf
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5kvc5346mmbgdk0pccd1n4err/nijujoxumivowak.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ca85d9c60---bavezogulerelifop.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607828c65640c---18035746960.pdf
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/pemimekuxasaloxilizofilu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb83.bin
7dd2944e054d3118280b7e8288f8985f17e42b132ebdf5597c4dd2cb733b452b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB83 17060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000127dc.bin
cb396acdb8a97af28c00321c00e92a431b16ebcbab86563496292c06685eabaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DC 10240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f0d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F0D 16792 bytes