Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488fee65d89a312a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-10-03 06:29:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 00acfa88bdf9d8fd0f1ae529d4c16183 SHA-1: e86ffa5d25a56ffaf1af0fc5cee3d6bb56fede27 SHA-256: 488fee65d89a312a86e9462a03d6474f99bdc798859e74eecb8542c86744389a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+two+three+play+with+me+song PDF link annotation
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebuvimusikoverufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/63630292008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614007ba2c53a---sevitukedefatovadipegapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bpg26ts1met2jeslbr6ckbi24/35783562916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/nazupetaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/nivakefarutemisabojawixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/wosalebeguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/93190370406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termocity.by/pics/files/livebumakasifojusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/gavaxurivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/kodixigepawanebada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader/file/97321016789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldsunjsc.com/upload/files/nolojurezedonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109030509408347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linilawemasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754560a25687c971674800ed4646998f/kudijozagopalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/24451605634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matao.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/95694678418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20294882974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/negoxitidubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66939119627.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_off0000ad34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD34 17152 bytes
SHA-256: e0df13fad6181f978298471bb6f715591220cb6e2e2ad3e7c160fdcc2bc0ec62
font_01_sfnt_off0000d900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD900 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 446b8c23f87db7abd3219b74d50eb7c3258209acca52987ee9fb326da172a946
font_02_sfnt_off0000f239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF239 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1