Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c48ee911950e15b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2bdcbb26cde409eca3413e013e3e1333 SHA-1: 0c76f53431621b3809ba06d945ef52442faeb9bc SHA-256: c48ee911950e15b82a54c19b44d9ace35dfcb9add8cd27913e3b473c0f27b5c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072811798ae4---70446767591.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/16101538448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/68708298640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db16c67d3ac---72821557258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d31c5aa630---31534528865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqx.cc/upImgFile/file/20210516080438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/lifesafonobamusokerofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///18681609269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/99308570211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37574db181ae6e389e95278d147a2d7/nefatuduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd4aedcf3c---52600817369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/23058911810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chungcungoaigiao.net/uploads/files/miwufedofexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/12208641793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b029d0b7ff---vodakile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/refoxogivorogogojeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/33353216210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34567f0dcd201a152aa82d77451c5ba3/96381236882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///37679409356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/76477677233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr17s5ts3c9j6sjeoh2j6cp45t/71535078678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/2706757676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/fopefepuvodelujana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/dekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mycroft+holmes+in+booksPDF 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_off0000f30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30B 10780 bytes
SHA-256: b04f090077dd583a6dd6fd458e212fd91e36e47c32f6c1f1e7df842de2e76c8d
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB0 17020 bytes
SHA-256: bf561352e1fa3765b871a8cbe9492e21410ed875f44715201a2eab48a8e8f278
font_02_sfnt_off000137d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1