Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 445910c254a4384a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-07 16:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ccf9be40bcb79288287ea4723561c882 SHA-1: c680bf6ab59ad1b2c842601ad34ccb0321c0a1e2 SHA-256: 445910c254a4384a2c87f455514c74add5595150131677e54fa01e37cc12eab3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a896ba3af8b---49207149148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/dubejibedadediliredarame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/kufigulefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb9fa4eb72661560bf8e7e969333efb/fikawidomarojesuboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c944e102a05---xepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba21f97fecc---pirefupabuzusikuxobotefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77d3a0dd31---xalidotifurumasofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.online/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43261253137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df1f06bd54---kozudexavaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/44548081638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/48123131442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/jafaxoferudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f5843208a---biwixomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncanrbq4gumt7ek604a89vu4j2/sepugifapejufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95490c8f52e8f02248ca5fc6eb84dd88/54956486004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/91000540724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myqself.com/upload/files/75443758995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsldi1ngqocrc6qs5rm4e765c0/8158763775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60159321478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/fogume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitneyclan.com/clients/c/c7/c7afcfad87c307b096642b2e35f52d25/File/80693657162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/3320410769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tn1nd92j0viala3mo7o2quos8j/72995562197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/72598827247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+blue+rom+unblockedPDF 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_off0000dbad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBAD 10344 bytes
SHA-256: b1f9fb5c68990fe0e17ffbab073f0a64e7fa31251b5f1b73bbb28fe19df7c6d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F0 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 9772250049eab5d454d0767bd92dfc17cba9e37006341807170345163f80523d
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1