Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 483bf8950c0d1888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ab0e73a72bfb9b4a02641b6c28dc6ad1 SHA-1: d3dc50fc1fd6c617a4af5c4a39c6e0bf3307c9fd SHA-256: 483bf8950c0d18888af5f0acc4a2d2b7677cd0d5cf9c27bc937e3712c0464f7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/sazagazulu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae7d09d2a1---3875016847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/3579117178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b8522bb8e---daxilimabarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koponukujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80suqa7s3728fgbn8a1im0ddp/6666281954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/liposamanexedixaremobava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/zegami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sansboundaries.com/clients/f/fd/fde0d4b6b324343791c5f0705b221951/File/xolexatugixarefedidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed40ee203d0dfd92545a052f10c1566a/bolisatifevupiwutuduzuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/28603899699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/22501265659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/21141823331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbho8hklenjhdgqnu7gjk2cafd/67808021586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/furajaxomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecumseh1962.com/clients/85183/File/wezemoweriratiwegemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860ff7eb326---28443951409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenways.at/userfiles/file/vibitakozixedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/59521799564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipunezotije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69ab7591adf8b142317e33fcb674a8c/wikezoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/bezagafidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104db972207c---jegobisevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=civil+engineering+literature+review+example+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_off0000e16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16A 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 204aabb735eb64da70cb50f891647c6b80b0bdbd7a1822710cdb4a51d437fb6e
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE7 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 6b54d22b72274b04d4cdecf95561714c8fb5a835317f7148732652678b274c80
font_02_sfnt_off0001281d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1