Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0453487ba4fbecb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:29:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f7306ac7c62887876024e7f9856e23f8 SHA-1: b8750ec455683f8176deddb2953f2d3b0f708205 SHA-256: 0453487ba4fbecb7f7eda8de42d9acfcd290e14596b43c3e631ca4c631d3aac8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and links pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or other malicious activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firojul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/94710183475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98183177424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5g91mp3jb1b0sb32hked4fg5v/fofaxonejujapoloxonunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/xufaziwegajumuludixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/7557478372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf2fb23c5d37f33bf02eff6359e1543/mewuxadifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/21945944774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d122b54d3eeadae33f13eeccf487075c/52548773493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73665278887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/gimusaxepokuvexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xudisiripevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr9hja1ctqompeff4anu65k6s1/jedozajuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009e6befe341d56e15ca3204e5bc38a6/77314003406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/dilikibixomugirodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78689127772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608baef2009b3---54339735757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/jomedutiwudiwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/29439112448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/mufupizovabimapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee12baf2344bc5bff1390eee9d55a3b/20346865857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2601dba34c6741d56094f70b525a9bdd/janopimedudaporog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tselectromechanical.com/uploads/CKfiles/files/vawezojowoleridax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/4502048248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=aerospace+quality+standards+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_off0000e489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE489 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 47c8708e2ddfdf06b3fa7198d2b822a76e0389a69a405e8c8d7461f167ec5054
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11600 17516 bytes
SHA-256: b2987c070030768eb8cbb18e8c4b66a291d2458c28ee948f57b339e950da01c1