Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 483a411e1b1a13c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-10-07 13:38:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b777d5344d1aac2c1bc9cef8da7820dc SHA-1: 148cbc488a971882e0c1951bb78dce634541334b SHA-256: 483a411e1b1a13c38a081bc0b4dee013adc3fae23ed42b9e302ad787fb543646
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or malicious domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to external sites for malicious purposes, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://seatraderhk.com/userfiles/koponegazolozataf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stimatacasa.eu/userfiles/files/32218248423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c9bcd7625---59902290207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatachau.vn/webroot/img/files/26704459261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/pofomuzazisakefepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/fuzolalebiwosigupenotafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150b2fef3ba0---zujijirixavikaxekinitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvenexuvejanorutokegivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacituran.com/userfiles/file/6095100024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/80892246075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95455971642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bingsu.ir/cache/fck_files/file/kepupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0hk6kb8jvj2v9s5mm9oclc0e3/kewuwepotemozowuxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qq0qa3q2q6bm5tr7388ulv8i9/natasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/tewuzojilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/3692282286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19273762463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://russiancosta.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75609889277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210903_023422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615838d1209fe---27697206281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamsurgeryen.net/ckupload/files/67737416641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/tolojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbe5174023---36248435514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/kigojedifop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615955fb6ac5a---bizezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=is+there+gonna+be+season+2+of+outer+banksPDF 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_off0000da85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA85 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 568416ec02e288cb279dc62720e6cd1b91a0969de6ae04c6038d95263bf63ece
font_01_sfnt_off0000f350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF350 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 25172f03558e67b08e3ac8c7d39f01ad11cb379510fa3010afb158572f69ef1d
font_02_sfnt_off00012419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12419 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1