Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 485fb0724c0ff16a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 69e0ca648bc8b245cc6807fb5d539ac3 SHA-1: 536bebc1ca809efe365a109cf289318827e696c1 SHA-256: 485fb0724c0ff16a4e4b737166db4e0ce3e2a312a1471b82e45fd21385368233
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+deleted+sms+from+android+mobile PDF link annotation
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876210d012b82455b4330a39cde78547/29457509742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83926266288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/pixifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd68f6baa4---fuvonekitusitokiroxulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/48762537698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a095888819417f07c374123f061cb7ac/vunivofilotaruxisunavezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5448a44c8---vujitozixujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d7e9592d6---83452428825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/tezurojolagafivobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711f7df2e0a---nofunagogunogedeveneluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed38a586f9b6b23084f00047beaab343/wogerorejotivumibikinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0418e01cb---xofane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0626d3b2c8e88c066476c2d7cf85aa6/wememapumini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/vuxenawolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/pofafodexegirusipeseveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098415157e1c---63484391934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/neneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5c5bf93a9411f4def2500bd5bf38c1/sovukarobilimaxaladiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/nalebirukelodogume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/27915267370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c8d7e5498---78393080285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccfb18b28c---lakajejawefixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F6 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d37f74f6dcaf1dcd81977dec6d7d6231e519bab038e3a44753e18cea5823927c
font_01_sfnt_off00010c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C41 17792 bytes
SHA-256: a729670422e919380bdb5bed4ad68cc46c4e3113bd7b2fdc459c6b5446870f30
font_02_sfnt_off000139e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1