Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 405452d433e6905b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 02:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 44b4396c2f239fba1938e3370788b9ac SHA-1: d196ba335e9887432087a074b7e225b6acf673a7 SHA-256: 405452d433e6905ba2df558fff02316630cf4086dbdb82c25f3e3f8d406dea62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f2e51e1b375ddbc401bfe3161837e1/siwerodufizifa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/28259352702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607678e43a262---87703436877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///zazitiveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d23c81344b---danarugerizugupowowakovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d089a513b5528f9e3dbab7d87dbe63d/47875926192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/kotumupibaziluvabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/26472434566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b51aa9a192a---54342166306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pplsvncj64spkv7takc2hiu94/49302972416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e5de0aa18---66776537761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/kajipagujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/sotuvutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943c10666dc---rutevotepinagakufasuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s84538h8ulh3gjod4stq1mt5q0/38324226705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb76e645e31d75ae7694afa6137fb8c/49204535892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62976caa86---77025628983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/valeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/duzewulekabagudonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/15849640280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixobovukuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d506b8a6a48---xijetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50kf4rp8uk0pbjia017b25058p/jevevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD+%D0%BF%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5+%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5+%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81PDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97fbd365d1af78d17fd8fc7d38f4303/35375861426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70C 23536 bytes
SHA-256: 8b2ff7921cc24a76f963c0160268e172820f5677f529b7afd454832d5b111f94
font_01_sfnt_off000121ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AE 10836 bytes
SHA-256: d3f89c22476496ec39c3810522d923a45472aefaf6251b3b5b0e373f277e1b23
font_02_sfnt_off00013a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1