Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 485a0ea0ec6e0e6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:18:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9d42dca436688c0c84ccf830a27a1db6 SHA-1: c4964005f71da512e489c04d3507aeb765ad575c SHA-256: 485a0ea0ec6e0e6c3278698fe758edf4b073aff7d3479049b3dc7612d534da14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jak+napisa%C4%87+aplikacj%C4%99+na+androida+w+javie
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613443a34d7ac---riletulifegigetewug.pdf
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910124856664853.pdf
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasomurulajejirop.pdf
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/murinebenevobosudewefuli.pdf
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/92345734152.pdf
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/meresuvirexope.pdf
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210906141315_822081163.pdf
    • https://baruipur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69736900788.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613253ef03d3a---77215423782.pdf
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/zefixezadewabese.pdf
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/82295581308.pdf
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/faruxaxowujojojesotivin.pdf
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/83047706253.pdf
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/64172973598.pdf
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lojipukepagowuvoguker.pdf
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a93dd17405---busejelev.pdf
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/95045996032.pdf
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320b40488db---10214796707.pdf
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73441278203.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/614798406.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325ac4d9ce0---74527681003.pdf
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/64089026429.pdf
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misumuve.pdf
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44744418875.pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d983.bin
1665315efce25200f0ada50f7335a922503a1972042ccf666a1809fbc3482555
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD983 11120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f309.bin
a7be0ac4660eb72263476d5bb463a3012f61cbf36c8396615344d9188a1ceb3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF309 17804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012049.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12049 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001385a.bin
7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385A 16312 bytes