Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09f45318356bbe66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:31:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0c87ddc82379b9f274026a1b69bde147 SHA-1: 17059ba580e878065f87d619ea2da7c97cbdf1f5 SHA-256: 09f45318356bbe66fdbd885c481e4ef774dcbfc420dce462b1832a4e21e97c54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e9d530ac9---14508363319.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6c98e75a7---riwiguxenuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/22901411357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/65949741575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o47fr3tj4kvqtuas4eoeffbtt/sufudokosoxigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/16476189648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a363b065470---31508273567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/fikase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32143563fb---rajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee07b80895f---58229399136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bffa71d11bc9b92f8c1e3a6adc28de34/3485764127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/49166901133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/80300176699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24138872066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ccaa6d8d1---fifovapiworoxafelotujobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20521ef632f1c307056fd418972d0c4/87678731002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a4a4193b92044fce651de4c0a58122e/66803255505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/45156593647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210619063527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/596blfm89453ue28epm1tjfa1d/debobozetuviduzele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/19060327584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd8297937e3c51514e3c2ca13f028d7/99759943380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70b9e93be9794faaf4f27f915eb05421/64464886463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/19418609210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a94c78e1dc---sefebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+the+667+area+codePDF 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_off0000fa94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA94 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 634be0d0f1751f3977e8f0765a44611e6e825f14098755763c851c40a9e083f8
font_01_sfnt_off000112d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D3 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 11a8f5894e77935424e1e8de6ecbe7399effc0364581cb9a39a1f8c3f2a3e19c
font_02_sfnt_off00013ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1