Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489d657a91f50a93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:04:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 68d965a486e7abd3fa90c336f9220325 SHA-1: fc4074f0f221f1c5ab563c7aed9e2fe39b9a6a7c SHA-256: 489d657a91f50a934b34410ac70080bb52a0cf3cbc0c6eee284da4ba20ef4031
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO poisoning tactics. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV/ML detections.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/kositufisakajefuzineta.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://talleresimad.com/images/subidas/files/8659400463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/vetekijedetivominad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097273320728---kugofawusobowabuxenalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/kekijaredoxasijunavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42781909013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945e7eca05b---gajeresuwexafexewixagake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/57901976304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc23b28c16d817b6a3a0be3b0595fa83/42964535946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098511fc2ab6---99548069974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/wuvufoxesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/rogaxuzebimenabetupofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210718195228073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/86603680821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/zubimozikijodixomarenopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130845ec67b7---10287298839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/52954707805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ff4f71460d6e89d6ba0a3cd38d507a/kobejuripababefisarikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd25b73b253---32113573009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/48303379627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/84314422498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41633f0452---29058996104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/pemijete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfba43efd6---74748896189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a87bebe21---5352079939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/lenajegejusamaronuridema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=economiser+in+thermal+power+plant+pdfPDF 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_off0000df04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF716 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 85af83034c171b4fb2c9754396d82d07dffb218a903e7945cab7c560df46e14c
font_02_sfnt_off0001266e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266E 10952 bytes
SHA-256: b8478f508b5043eb97c4f28a9589b1246eaeef90d038d75396b7b1707c1872ef

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