Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4455593a9cf7e028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 04:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c16b586de10bcb0061a596cec85f9c8c SHA-1: 005a8835ef61cfb7aaf2e15d842aae8b02426d08 SHA-256: 4455593a9cf7e028661da1c8da65c0879f98470e323d302652e8825265f22340
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608572a949c36---82730452970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spobanb89jhfnr8dfijag2u0ru/vubunutojijabule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5n1nfhc0r5o70qvtnqumbb1ni/bisuwoxejimaxomiguzofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/tusanaviviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/tusuladugezolalenikogerib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b538ebd4cd7fad9345f0d0a284158d4/28150548444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b42b4d0bbeb6d4c4d5690ca2e4b52dae/43510466654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b92767ca8---fivunawezuwefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/popajarilivaxupomasexazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/28213044879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/36866216855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/refixegaranitisoxevakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb5c339740708ae37d20bf050fc2305d/70570009993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/77703252660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56792a5a24aa6e00f824f9ed67a50b2/59606258100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hanuman+chalisa+dj+remix+free+download+mp3PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d22c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD22C 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 462c10b3e70bc77ffa2389fc24eef1d80e5cc7216ad875680c004232a6fa4731
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B6 10696 bytes
SHA-256: a1e178dabbf0e29b0bb66f1f0b78b058de27060ca9514d5acbbe9d965cbf625c
font_02_sfnt_off00010a95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A95 18876 bytes
SHA-256: 24c9bfc5787581b3c231761b13a2782649d5ca652a395e93edbe0e9140dda2f0
font_03_sfnt_off000128a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A5 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 82855ab5b87ff3e256b2198c33a0bb2a795e7e3a4941be6be58f91ce17ccefef