Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a48d7c16c99b1352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 98455e9bc22c84e227f9e749f110678e SHA-1: 913467c0209ac46035f6e81e006518a684627e59 SHA-256: a48d7c16c99b1352418bc4bc88d095abfa66cb9e8c8c8d510ae02b50bac6ccb2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links indicates an attempt to lead the user away from the document to a potentially harmful destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sky+go+android+tablet+download PDF link annotation
    • http://c2r.su/uploadfiles/file/2021090410534773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safecampus.in/cmsCart/upload/file/dunifusisavomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dkmodels.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51747011603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eca939ddddc5fd1644ced456a217e1d/netidalaxugewowitapopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48242937994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calprin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38405661754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1eeb9f25ea37882f437c7326c5db903/69743638033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/xofuxupime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianshunqs.com/admin/upload/89436929146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/83280911390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/5410135169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210915165126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/42667430971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/mutaluruwepirinemukexisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37001296550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63567442757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/geduwazaxesevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuinvandecruys.be/file/jaduvonuzaxiwaxaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76508718914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145551b4d8e5---39065485049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/kiroxunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/jugura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423640e3375---tovobagisakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/29865431181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210918/file/16319738667757.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_off0000afb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C6 14336 bytes
SHA-256: 95d8344c3f421466784af7ccf99178f52401bfc6247c0ccadd82e837297d53d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC2 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe7339a03909fb8acda20b3a5994b97b289ea99f1a7dad772438e8504d89ccf