Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2454716f5fd65323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3299e67e0089d92a1bcb6582995fe475 SHA-1: 86aa128df2c1ba052f48bb870ff716950c0a55c1 SHA-256: 2454716f5fd6532390121873249159c9dc623397c8a30842a4cc2cfadaa02499
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or potentially hosting phishing content, leveraging numerous links to obscure its true objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1031ffb210eb0271d60f749923cf7fb9/bomanileronimu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56da53544d2e34e0a400918fd23c321c/1391463100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db7e019df3869a011342122235366238/66104470893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/34642228865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnmd7296j6ah630usn73665ka7/sufarila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/fuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/54465800365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1af9cf3abb002e4a51ca2a50a3fb1a/lelotekebedepesowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b064372d0---58235796729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c67ef2ad93---luwelesusofetazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/mokorusadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23701607833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9ec692278---88116725948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b744c602542---lupijajafimamutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufmpana0rdcr29slcrop4sm41t/46554292570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d851ed3d80e836e500e912bc985a5f45/9570997733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14587019420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e2955feba---29100419849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/momiwikozalavidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tibapubupebupixotiwumavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/dovutatatosememepobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/945825291610dda677b3f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tp-pos.com/uploads/image/files/16817815536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855c5ba33ac---83215697153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f043b4c8bf---86749111334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/wanodupexupowokebagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1658350681c8b5360c936d39dcaae4e/negoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=como+crear+riqueza+libro+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_off0000dde8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE8 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 3fbef4e3f2fd49a57a25a21cb735db7f147fe4a9403d872b036ecb58ce52b3a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB6 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 18d794e75c4f3cacd950872249778c0c92b4c3cd75a22219ee1ca04cad9d6bb3

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