Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0452924659c3a26e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-08-13 21:01:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 944b5a3cc68fa80f0cab98065f6f0748 SHA-1: 6e7eb89346b5f980e246105bf915fcad52867a7e SHA-256: 0452924659c3a26e24c263257a4e9e0331dadaa6ed5233b784772ff452db6945
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=concepto+de+la+cosmologia+en+fisica PDF link annotation
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/metevibazadewobawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b9df02117---3747850514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/91552313941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91003661949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2280d613b2---fizapuworeratemozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608950227600e---37661710342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/198fa75ab4783287e2627b027b1d1e7a/53667946880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwaworudizogegipegojalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d085cd0b24d---8827273822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0142587001624184579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6ad230f65788ffaadb78eefd99dbc6/nozitufoberajujeleves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s06qju76rg1kolijgqaaq1vg4/5739287040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/dazomisopevabakobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0141801e5e1f6b1ef60306a056c4ea76/rasenotumalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/24089110797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/beferivudodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec790d72ad70aae8d391d82da15caaf/42722675767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/gakifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojipurolilebawetegofigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/sumafonofuzenozowimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oakgroveschoolheritage.com/clients/b/bc/bc5c94904a1f00f1300372e6f875146f/File/bitukijarebuluteluzojeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/relikejekepaxikodetitomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxawubezitejikonuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flour.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxebolekevigirajirusinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jarokefavasupefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/93005996825.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_off000101a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B9 20188 bytes
SHA-256: 4f67cc09e06084eb9102c3dca739d159b64d99a90265fe84cba574d36993988a
font_02_sfnt_off00014beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BEB 10892 bytes
SHA-256: bc042586d006443cc32630ce4c572a478b46c6ed0d31ab258c104f20d8557438