Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488cd4cb8b9352bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-08-03 00:36:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2a3e36aa1a8d9991d9844082eb336b06 SHA-1: cf27eed94be9a51df1264cbfe8d5fe34119f42fc SHA-256: 488cd4cb8b9352bd2b0cc69844f3deee2af447da7217435664690df69dc7bf5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calorie+calculator+kg+lose+weight PDF link annotation
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/62462235194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8946914ca39cd03fff0f1b6d97c744a1/19838597903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/6770841147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/82939736085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/20340359488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46cf69a0921ff229e4b24961919fac7/52834385753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/susidurogolupumawiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a0254a0f1---xuvelofapudilixoxufika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redfordunion70.com/clients/869360/File/vetarevufafepuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/11081581543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijikigavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071fb44136a7cd3a8eddcf23895e3521/xusinukofigozofukifasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpvufua76efha49oajjd71d5q3/96827084828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e319c534d7---buwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/kivezevini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dc1f4477b---29468123029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/60602023598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c393d14a1---tupodumopifazazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/kulazefukobogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62c53551b0---10826836168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xzass.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99894087494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/3481419391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ba30dbc7b---lisosagetegukibisonomute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f4136fbbbcfe374c88fea45ea6e0850/naberiropuvutuvisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c7f46538960dc9edca04302e134e81/91796301438.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000124a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A8 17788 bytes
SHA-256: e9df8cb2cf46edf5f65609c83ef383d5c47187fa652b4f5d4e8aad3e399fb284
font_01_sfnt_off00013fd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD9 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 86145a38f5d3f09820d40d30779a6f82c5d511ea9c9dce39eef1c30f83353c4f
font_02_sfnt_off00016ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CE8 10712 bytes
SHA-256: a5a6b15052020407e77cc93d43edb657e839893fc280f0e8127f00d7fce608c8
font_03_sfnt_off000185c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x185C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1