Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1455a25f3902eb3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 83aa23e958af1ce2e11bc48ffc353db6 SHA-1: 547ce088a74559547931cd648f03b101f59d090c SHA-256: 1455a25f3902eb3ab7b266ae3a8313958b8e0c2b005c7189f8897572d7cda23c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure to download malicious payloads, aligning with a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614010e9c3de2---99963450625.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1fdbgo34mdidqljvbpmor8e54/44143910362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5b25d7a04---15363752526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijalegowolalamumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/zowapojuwefuxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907132249463531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/jikazalegesatudofibadakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/11831603817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161478d2e4317a---xuwunonexaxobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/5610135223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/37446533482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilekipudugemelatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/68823915125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/15119443355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/bolefusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090514190573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/56643072679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f3ba94e65aa2b90e550eff6f8f8359/91940256425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/wamipolokuxadosalilowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/bexuzobiwimanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repudofitosidefixogomive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/48759452534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/74960306175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stowarzyszeniemalyksiaze.eu/img/upload/files/61512928518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5be13fa87---70942252494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/besewiguferonireleroxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18113079451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+snap+camera+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB73C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF4E 14376 bytes
SHA-256: 3d2f3dd59587b3f8072b23d18c83ca4cec84566fdf432a0da0ba32962695adae
font_02_sfnt_off0000f30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30B 10768 bytes
SHA-256: e4ae3a78f55647f4b68d15560c46e7ebadaea172cbfdcc9809b64551c25b074e