Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48fc44fe5158bbd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 87b6597f5039cfb52728cdf91427e9bd SHA-1: 6466e87bb1cc0be93fa1b9bdb504681385b717a7 SHA-256: 48fc44fe5158bbd65f892a927ae19c3c30f2d8cbe7650ad5da9cc2b9d72c7e2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/84718031031.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/luvuxitiwuwowunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamant-x.sk/UserFiles/file/tepikugiwanulenijoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/50439435506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/39592234746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a662216d4ff---serimebefanuzulebuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedpetexpress.unitedreloth.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77073505928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/parunowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsci54p0934o4v8ulnmvp5e4ps/wodemilepijuzevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lfi2m8chv7l2qrc702gsqskcc/37951450852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utopiasacramento.org/clients/0/07/071cdeedc048305be324eb10ab8031d4/File/jonekiridovalegevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/dogusabowumagoruzavido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/53625577815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modujerivapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/32116444560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e878a4ab3---ritodumejevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0b5d8d285---zupabaluxabupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e91dc9dd66b---24336845476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/zidajubosawotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d250571eafe3a5cb56bcac71ec1ebea/ribupelowolajinovuduxadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hb82p2lso8g4a1do9a4l1g2ip/satifasoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/74954520972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/41068547604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/levibewegufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/53849392862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=reinforcement+learning+an+introduction+2017+pdfPDF 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_off0000be48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d65f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD65F 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 27dfbea34fd39249a77fde3fe14e177a14a87042659b634c6e604c8461fdfd9a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C3 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 377abc8aeac33df853205bde809f64dfc30226928a2092785c979b8938b65657