Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d48ea2c462c214eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 04:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aee8d23f8c22bb897055183d3b9d24c0 SHA-1: 24096bfc0c82e8b2eb5b91cc2f029d656fb62c9e SHA-256: d48ea2c462c214ebe2ec6f113b041503178b57f39c1fc7604b713d0ec7954c3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/39221429632.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u950j36j06jhn5c8q2i9q5deik/vanibomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088eb9c7984f---kodatubamadepikimexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f46a9d33d7---39594728974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cd460dfc8---nenalawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qv682dcfuoapppjo55umo1ds2/lakonalorugibonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c25895e486962670d893118913d8fc/pimuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c784eb7d1aa---62769256432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/82697371288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cf01e830e---buvilotebevobevubibalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a0ab43854---vukomaxurifajubekubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euvtqls9q0af36sta38bnmlln5/53541075070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dso-fuzine.si/docs/61865790683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/90514152111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/fuzilofatemuwijazemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branpc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidovexiwuzexasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=brief+psychiatric+rating+scale+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12558 5568 bytes
SHA-256: a3b96eb64a3d3628178484016f76a7b54e3572a471f124a10e31f7f644b148c7
font_01_sfnt_off0001384f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1384F 12896 bytes
SHA-256: e204ccb481a929e45cf91f9a2847aa512b6937cc7faeff8d8be89092f62912e9