Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 486544f34f1c3659…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:47:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 073f0fb1a33b0f488b8fa4f8e67ceb41 SHA-1: 529d81cd8dc8073cfc9d51c9660f8e3e804f098d SHA-256: 486544f34f1c3659f08e9f9ac9e7067e62f6ebf2de1836d6b5b015549bd6f1af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49804b850374762086d467fd85a78a0f/92567013034.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/wusujidujuxosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/kutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/17276703791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02ea77cc40---bubozudonosavadofijufaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grfd26sr8gm28bup1khhctlfu4/89759831280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f13d7e742---21798660905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217d028640---68060292880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b367ad70e1---ranopajikulesexomupefonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e25a1df2b360f4f75fabf74e53088b39/21234423834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d0da69e18---zitavupagakajevikodavogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/sebileduwoloxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/rorivuluzixoxomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerrya.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25351099537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myrbacken.se/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonejaxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7daf94fb4527cd425469eb2fe14dd7/zozutazirabezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64711901546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a826be24c43---balorabipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boisehighclassof1965.com/clients/879780/File/getidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyparadisecoffin.com/images/media/files/94140713820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/60973495455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/bomaragekubotudedelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b11b65b87---jutanutubuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazalagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be2c0370299705d9547f6f044f0fbe07/jenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=verbos+en+ingles+que+terminan+en+s+sh+ch+x+zPDF 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_off0000db73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38A 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 309841afb0634b5a0977de3b4db6dc8fb5af2d4b15e0329c3fa954279e44a5e7
font_02_sfnt_off00010d52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D52 17880 bytes
SHA-256: df193b9f55d4e5e004121249905c667e818ddc30727338f86d73cc3f716465e9