PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2a45ab958f406bf3

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 14:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25

MD5: 6d6833819876737f2ac58f3b0c9f4835 SHA-1: 3231d0b98d22a0ad371726960469e11be1315da2 SHA-256: 2a45ab958f406bf3a188a8bf2a847aea43df50768ba86b53916d22f808b75aa0

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9685

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://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f10b683f6---59751395924.pdf In PDF document text
- https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qg6a7t8luim737skcfl9ftl2lt/82575229036.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dvmj4vr8oinhpnn0k4kbck2e0/gujilafoketegunonoluguwof.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888e76c9d76---sijojofipekidupofimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/054349c3b00b465afc257320a0266077/xepezatanulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0efcc7bfd91a399dbfe8f51ebafa400f/zudelap.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6785ff6ae566b678f1a31813b89ad80/vojegu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/271997840.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983c0ae974d---6285694941.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b5c0bb0709dbc24a4cc2d79ecf6d5ae/pizoxaxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607489e303906---75002189128.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/wapuvegevikonuvokovore.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/9683792641.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210521091817.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/82167662678.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/lafobuvowudilejovanevovo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/liwubakomiveso.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/beloleraruve.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/869c8191e4defe2a00813c6b46afa42e/puranalusadotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40076e0327---48733022975.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/6173639338.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ebc670024---zijezusab.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc0c26bf9b---34808057205.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52k4jnd9lat2e199s26cjbnu1p/dasuzowupaga.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4189a20403---98130812920.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/lujurosa.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd5c1ed50f---713241958.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=french+reflexive+verbs+worksheetPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off00010ea7.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA7	19140 bytes
SHA-256: `0d0db34c31e4a2c72fc9f58fb340f0f4ed7d8da4344b5bc4188cdf0906b632e9`
`font_01_sfnt_off00013e1f.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E1F	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off00015630.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15630	16164 bytes
SHA-256: `fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467`
`font_03_sfnt_off00016ba7.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BA7	10732 bytes
SHA-256: `8a21d6160cdd54c555db3ef7c92277d8a0f3b855ee11a7f067f9d37158b3877b`

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