Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 485e02c508704d5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6cc12539acef5c17e7fdbd0c8f23cec9 SHA-1: 60b6be1abe23226bbfa6a0c8aa3bd5d4419f271b SHA-256: 485e02c508704d5d57b22f3a47a0547e9cef3f66b7238b1b41fed76ae06efb04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to lead users to untrusted sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210615001915033.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/towoxolaniwesikejotimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851aef403e70c117ecaa79585cc02d09/xorikixebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/70045714294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpholding.ru/uploads/files/dobiwukitopaxalumajeduwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c45481285---39582049908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/dirugoxutifoganegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/gekujonidudabepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hc0ta5aue03esrkqpi6qv9tpe/26076528997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmgem8sr6760hqok57g1ju42d4/vivepulexide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/20005869734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/josilubafofilopefedodubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f271bf8303f8ba484cef28062dd8e7c0/58367462246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lobutomewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1518ba788ba3844639e9a54a26b466/fopetawewunelegilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotaromalolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b06bf1e094b58f62f4ad20cef6a20dc/66807664667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadimtursu.com/image/files/fekuzupaxegojos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/92429002001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/25422517782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7e5659ab3e---11951883264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/43548466331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/81069146912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/golinamuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/vuligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=etc+sensor+dmx512+manualPDF 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_off000175ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E00 20196 bytes
SHA-256: 39d9a9d5f22ee99cd1be4f13289d03e0c72847eb20975400671f4719ba7a4e2e
font_02_sfnt_off0001c362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C362 10928 bytes
SHA-256: dba611111c1749d186514f76a8f0b4520111a5c73286ae086962fef520ea6d96