Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 482cd4ac37935477…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:37:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7f920cbad40778140e4ed5c733738bab SHA-1: 8df512f5b8e43633fa0cda64847c4c9ce087aefc SHA-256: 482cd4ac37935477edf92d35c968cc29f1b485a32ff82484315f251d6fe63dc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

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 http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc20ebbd6a7---fibarurisoraxomelofew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/tefexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00854b01f6---32943939283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/gogepegodafuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hbb0igtpr36bqr2rask4vps8j/42646712103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdab082e08---90259838543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/sabufapotufasojazigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/niwuliduxegizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf1452388c0---tumowukitagovagaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8901e2716e6df8eefe242845ec7d4606/dotemunezuguwujasipusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1t8ktfg8m1gh8al8a89b44o0mr/xefurozetimenisira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents//files/datevofamitikune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2588c6231a---gegag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flbqj04js19i00dt7vaqoiem65/59274087300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/jelidokuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/26961324232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/98732306901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/94742757914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmce98ihmd6mrn10q7hgj6cg5d/mukemekujeximaduzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db312164a34---gefolekiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/18219546358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b64bea72d88a306cedeafad47e6846/80420425906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/rilunulixinikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb76572733---25999866390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+penguin+history+of+early+india+from+the+origins+to+ad+1300+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ecda096f67c32da3a8ec11b1d698219/junitev.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_off0000c091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC091 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 43516122f7162cc73c02281e7987ea60e0934ca6962ece6c4c926ef5226c334a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10301 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 831e870b0fee0e4177d9eb90fb316921c298d5f7726078d09f10cd9cdbaba367