Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f48f67f81f22c1d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-03 19:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 28526485734449043468a28c3ff2709e SHA-1: f4b82597d631bb8c33026ecedc32be491576d711 SHA-256: f48f67f81f22c1d61b34f77a05a7cdc14d131db78440e93629889d5d26bec2c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead the user away from the current document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodiwuninofuxanojodozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wetixiroxosejeruwedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8m2na6iodtm474gfjml6m07tl3/80197974792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9169bddc82aee48365202c5eeba4a8ac/memev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flambotour.it/themes/userfiles//files/78060925257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/35193342658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/tovajavajasijanoxuzudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9b11136c8---semewotamiziximasanuzeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrq2gbq9olouj8jam86sm20rh3/35337830063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e68b40bff725ba0f98f71c6070a8d52/42949726740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/69068150061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3c4ac661b---84488454040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f83980c39a8---33309806001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/40134838621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/70778619164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/3552422500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulebaduluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f1e1c15d4---63431243646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607937d999e47---befodimunexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/55238060539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/85043485330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2e7eb122ee---lopija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/52816114324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+diccionario+b%C3%ADblico+ilustrado+gratis+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_off0000e0c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D4 18604 bytes
SHA-256: 1dacf6055f5642d9af8c741eb308027e225587e6bd10b6e6034727f7054da264
font_02_sfnt_off000128c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C9 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 8e03b497208a816a4904ea2f28ae76d2a54100bca568ad3bf47249d9febb5d47