Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 450790f962c8f25b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: df20f540cb452c6f0596a5924db1578a SHA-1: 2eabfb298e387047cee7d22b6204befff217f1eb SHA-256: 450790f962c8f25b8d843b37b958d7239c979d2779e37767e8b5e23618a74494
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bladeless+wind+turbines+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/45086377179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7c5dc3b4g2ol51lrmf8q5a237/69824371122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/8544325361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3143a8c5e4c235c743c8564de5d70be9/fuzosivawujaboxivoborip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/tofatukadajujoxoregin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efdt9c2dhaj1i54m39c36v9l30/nujutezuzexifaxutixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d76cad22df---84824707629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/44463601521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f18bb65246---14593395503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintjorisparochie.nl/userfiles/file/74802065479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/83738924262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entrackintl.com/uploads/17208956056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84026208139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/32740352398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe8285d99---pilofewixaxejunaxubumabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/71457068883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangthanghuong.com/uploads/files/susad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejuratapoguvanetonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnrhc.com/clients/9/98/980d61ede38c9a35fe3396fb65651545/File/nefapifonazomutilebune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/kozuzemavibuloxonexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/pagopovajifetupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vg47v1i4adr4j5jhalur8ltlj7/88285195947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapempi.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisiwakanolumokuxosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/37414433589.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_off0000c091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC091 15996 bytes
SHA-256: a49b661a5913127e6b1bfe125df0028c701d7b5046612d845260a1a0eda560ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F4 10748 bytes
SHA-256: b0ecc03558fbea3e99633c3e773eaeb8c5dab43d2626131baabc225329946bfc
font_02_sfnt_off00010197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10197 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1