Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f488314812fe030a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b6bfb41caa26bc81a89923dfe9e3fad8 SHA-1: 4dcaf7e9c6ac054252723f7ed7d451a4ad8710b0 SHA-256: f488314812fe030a47ec2d681e189a0ba1cebd6da9d17be4e2aa85be57876830
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, which is a common tactic for phishing or SEO spam. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/92722858626.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/rilatikejopojupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0120246ec3---zoxezedopenukekepeguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db4cd0ff1bbe34ccc9de2532ee95b0f/44521413147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82873fe3ekp38ncn9c22qnrgrv/68604922424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202174125360633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26039139301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa587d949559a2a0c87d8340eb46d450/2599337764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/galonowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/zadanapupudozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/84909755289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/jisotamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents//files/tetozolomuvebobixabesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c3662418d---81763972132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/gipite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/42889239826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/73833019726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210628163042439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/bilasumudozetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/27811975031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56eee7f6fdbdf4e1c6816791d9ccbbe7/serimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/78833864627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d11c2484f---54963761767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22139623141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ginkgo+biloba+contraindicaciones+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_off0000b7ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7EA 16424 bytes
SHA-256: c7d602d71f584969ef48bea043d45cf8648b51dc999f4d31860d21ff130b8993
font_01_sfnt_off0000e222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE222 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 01c47f59979d1f898635c665b1de696e71f59572d892e39f0b1b322ab81b8cbf
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1