Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1450d690cbbca005…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:52:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e08122a179ae2238de0a2eb9ed698197 SHA-1: d57ab44b007f44866e94efa924fe7e508860967b SHA-256: 1450d690cbbca00523111316ae14ebe77258d1cb6bf18eaed8e3a545a5a1a6cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

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 http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e17a03a336---18424046032.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5c556a1786---97518387873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43a4eb7f16c1f8e2119b04a5b5a248bf/60996927735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c824e82350---21031722289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891cefea27d---77089444012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b1b5d1abbc---jidakawarowabidiwexanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/99210321355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/34571626665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d60b342966---lezitomewebewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611733d7dfa09---purowedawenobopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07bj2icembsflsq8riofesnfr9/dogowelalurere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202108012146505974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/fikitapizurenikujubinokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/mutuzonidiwolulogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a17ecdca56---40108621874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/getobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/20329808343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaihoanghung.com/upload/files/40487543500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/doduxidekuxisirilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b0ddcbe2d---45826400547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/15322702801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/lomikeronukitenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/95490115468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad844b063e58c51ead4d62175d4ff29/38722619795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=champion+of+the+earthPDF 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_off0000e457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE457 17908 bytes
SHA-256: c4a2ea29c0c966d52de41d4bec257369b32bf4ea727813e02a8dba07596cb4a3
font_01_sfnt_off000112a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB9 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 08d73387ea132b5e9e64227bfdfaaaf82fb2d061b0f25a65f5e58e58b3bb9f30