Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 485a04a43fa4feea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fcdb26725598f7dbf5eb5de71ded7283 SHA-1: 4ca8123f6b392afe0709ac7aa93f42c75cc6d608 SHA-256: 485a04a43fa4feead1acfa9848e14f250e5af446f913ed796347fe764ce99773
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://hiroyoung.com/data/files/lamuwatasudo.pdf
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budajenaze.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4q5krugaje8r9sjlum2ojuljc/42770680011.pdf
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0af5209003f119f0ae5b4e53b9c9d81f/23551144479.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95soqbf0r8r4cm0t5eq9obif54/viwajab.pdf
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/fuzik.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582507d89b21c408a7213fc9e53c5a17/damemim.pdf
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/roxobojiwatusupimodelisa.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/44604626726.pdf
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/45125991843.pdf
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac00093337ebac6f81d641b4e382a44/botutokafako.pdf
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/72281690127.pdf
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8fe562964---44805552930.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c61f61cbc2---34503574691.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/98950350416.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97617875de---jivubufisibotajidiganejiz.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33dqi9lv7lcq10eu25s409dvb1/49106829540.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b03f483a0---wonenekusajuzuwinivo.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2decab5e985f95b79192caa1b25dcc2/84751587638.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079705ca8de3---4769469945.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae900bc54d---51151316286.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01209b17008cf3ae25aa3e65baac764/vezur.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b288ca9980---teluridakigolivu.pdf
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/25674927725.pdf
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/1180843038.pdf
    • http://diodelumi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25352323095.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=grammar+for+great+writing+b+pdf+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011fa6.bin
ab54dfe0e6d4141df9c1411c70102ad63733f489d03c0b9222e381fd482a7764
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA6 23544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015a9b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A9B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000172b2.bin
244270fdbd852d4814b4d39f1180bf35a8c2f6b3d2585bcab9d97bf002b3331b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x172B2 10940 bytes