Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48f6d0c2e7a3c232…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-10-12 07:02:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: aa70177dff175019d5fdc1732f199176 SHA-1: 962d035d264aaa3b61357d26ac2223a3a77b17f9 SHA-256: 48f6d0c2e7a3c232e6a4b59b52a4f69a79d69fdd8269a07ddae06b8f47026ef9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links point towards a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applied+fitness+solutions PDF link annotation
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39246502352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexxeopaint.com/upload/files/juvifatuferil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2b9b1d3d8c9dd215e2643239dcf3656/41580013087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/21793501376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f26cbc0cb0---5783311384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/pusavuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/sobosazeretefabatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.campacinter.com/image/upload/File/barerenemotapolefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34138653699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitekinfostructures.com/userfiles/file/68380509046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73406431879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-land.hu/editor_up/22603244144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202110041120519591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/labojifafukikujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/83371941396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134611f80762---tofufaxoxetapixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/91563696286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53968768995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/vixojewumabeduviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/gifazijepijuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2585517712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159d2f8ba63f---41083749997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rememumedunupobik.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_off000109b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B5 19212 bytes
SHA-256: 006dc78b79c0de3fc9ee3fe8408309a4ac5245620102f6900286b45f021c959c
font_01_sfnt_off00013b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15320 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 5041351d036cfbee99346322575a2cc9066f5a09a4061177db42cec52581aea8