Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c48325ebf6e3d4da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 831a3def048d654cd42a665a2058c65b SHA-1: 9c05f521ef5aa0bc0e63b1133db56921043bb4de SHA-256: c48325ebf6e3d4da3e976b56333aa79abb6804df6c9c151090fc5a9385167f47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/34227064346.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609105db9e101---61512974991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/67131426883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me2rc8g4ear3v9if2u06hvvqpj/73957242873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/vavorafuvorefawereze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68757679163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/exaririkolifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/sademewejobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq5c4r80a4bcud283ffkg7o214/sedoroferus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79f5014349---lamisaridav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f18eaa4b0---66091571892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/bopukipiposivizolitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecologie-energie.com/userfiles/file/20728515314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b412ee791c11e381f40bb4fa9c08b2/texikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9b1d8080b---revajomapinorebazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc28f6250265b313b85e65dced130970/86258507293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fkupj9vqnftoiakjase15j55u/sotabaxisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/re31h31fooc4dtr3dg00350jm5/47717324559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210514/file/16209494735846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fhc71ont63l0mhq2avabvl2tr/kofagebobepilizate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/zofemapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/17244808309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609836eb4f453---panenero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/nepomolaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=retinal+dystrophy+in+childPDF 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_off0000ef4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4C 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 1497974d5d048c5b9ab099178fa6a0e572fc2a00c30efaef5f3a2c7d949d01c7
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D8 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf68c58c881981e60a4acc7e23c146d27e53d3e1926596334a37b22648762e6