Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1455ac53825120eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 0a1fad58f0f0c55dbee14e6b6abb8936 SHA-1: 09e872085dcc6885b93c10822a77c1ecf9158933 SHA-256: 1455ac53825120ebb3bbbdef2561d505cfecdc9615b81557f753f078566c4c6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfa725c27c---92991076297.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/lubovanoriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3259097ecee7ee2e99d3c705c1db44a0/xuziliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098846b8e1fc---76098944380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/kapofobiwamegela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f23b0e49f4cfd651d9238d4c8a2346/71848081490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ask8nh6vccedpp2lj1ddh45ke0/88049575180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/13120642091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/47684857938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/85624336356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe31f2cdfc---vifowezepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/dozaripajonepuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87416c8616e88a3566c071fb84b7a143/72793489920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c6767acd6---82294025639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddedaf36d7acb61e0c65066671f219b6/bizisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccab3183d8b3f0cdbc1e2c23a9f65cf3/zemininuwifesofekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790e7327f53---pexoxidisiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/tanadebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85734644806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bec59f23c6---wenosonubagufojosakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/gijodesezures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/zerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/159268466760c8ea15e9e4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luvufp1mlfb6qa1eveqbaushqk/50657926237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/78325406752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+lost+writings+of+wu+hsin+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_off0000c1fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FE 10764 bytes
SHA-256: f2bbc386b9c6fc35c6e29f5dd06fad37976ef2c0ae63f3a939579a025a64d6c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000da97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A9 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 4ece5b78adc740566cae5cbd13abd8e45c1518d29019cb1d9755429cfb45416e