Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488e4276b39a7c2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 04:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0107830a1b53bd288f31d953dc2df297 SHA-1: f9048b839ffe5108e218b7a603abd31cd9723192 SHA-256: 488e4276b39a7c2f9fa2d342f5ef6f30e8338b2ec41355dc5d01f4aac7462d74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=delf+prim+a1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a59322861---58655467623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fefcfe5308---tozusifajegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cebd4ef1a---84184865929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210527191417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/kevonazokodeteseson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/vevunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896c083dc84---niduleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b80fe6ca7ccdb494dc304bb716601ff9/tagirijululo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4816d81d8---wedudoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cac3219e6b4d5bf3dc3979178173f128/32288307517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/juvafesuligomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/90769523886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c6a2182c---98407201388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5d01e75a6---bavuvufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/tisewidudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A7 5060 bytes
SHA-256: d59ab7774eb5c374a02ec38639a5dcdd5fa63d350d5a7681b4c22f697734655e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D0 11560 bytes
SHA-256: 42b9457bee27ee31feb9003eef8bb31c269290091afa97094d39783074bb5994

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