Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 483ad0e016d38617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ea0740c130eed7c1461c45c153037682 SHA-1: bbb10bc4246bea904d96c6653826f3073cfd6fd0 SHA-256: 483ad0e016d386173d96cbe518cfa1276c94e6427238803fe9bcfd4f8b222522
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff705ac427df0d251617ea68d00e60b2/43348283148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/digenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldo.eu/contenuti/upload/file/34614281510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er1mu16l46mjhs3gu0c3f12r81/18318580905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/70529031827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/wuxixepetexuzilovufutowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d1c7a23f95---79630567072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/17574161438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/67549840329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/17244622746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcihlar.cz/userfiles/file/11767974403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmjqd22r9t67sqkvu9qc6vsrg3/654800558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e464ec2ba7---85868837043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvnojikcg9kiq2e9vsbjttb031/73936190416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designgaleria.hu/userfiles/file/mifafavusalopenefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsuavina.com/userfiles/file/lisako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/juxataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/bafunapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/15436943983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10prrlalfft5s7e9fnckbrk9dn/59803268589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/20217251049439039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd05d184c8---29906188185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42606747149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=must+to+know+clinical+microscopy+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_off00011d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001358b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1358B 20628 bytes
SHA-256: d47e06136f0bda76af816a38be61e98bfe9d43318341cb1d857f60e043804b6a
font_02_sfnt_off00016b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B15 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 745d807fbeeb8bbaa8420c9c4dca4bf718d3f67dc9bda33463142dbf56f3c6b7