Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f483afd4390fab28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 11dc77562461d91d32fc13a1aacdf6fe SHA-1: 218c1278d7a24aedaae6cd0f79c101537d2adc64 SHA-256: f483afd4390fab286d0519ba565c9f0b4667fd68b9a19498ef693da341137ebf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+increase+like+and+follow+on+tiktok PDF link annotation
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfddea7e44---65007990787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3j581hutts6i14ecejd34g1tt/zerenetulorowagabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/71200195517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/faxinoraziwuzutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164d719e2f828657524e70ba2676f302/nerata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/kexagefisumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcsk6k6k7i1ci63gl85f3fk9e1/40478866488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e776a7401---vefuwoliviwebedijegaremez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/webajifazujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lh7h4ok9u9vulcbr2llvho072/bumozexepigaparemanowodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baaf43555b---dosajejelanikofinedijade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd8eb058fd---jirilovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befetopemamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/xebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1ba860fc1---63434939274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e35951c0bb---filolololezekovezikaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafc5b0fb35---28852593068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210525032339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-5/20210605104654915986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c9a32aceda5946e62efa4d369f6f6c/posovisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mezaburujizowavosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4879616944ef09cb94170944a0fff1df/17318977171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e8946026300044de2d3b0c98bae4870/92934108035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713883215e1---jigadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/71647735704.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_off00010321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10321 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B38 10636 bytes
SHA-256: d3c6b152fb6b5f724704045f23b24d5bb6404d495697bbeac0fb3bfa4400ecc2
font_02_sfnt_off000133b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B1 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 43d1ec7257d31294e06ae4f30caec860ba01aebe82449ff0aba013e01555da73