Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 452cb125e8426a66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 637ec349adbd9de5cc0180b09de6b90e SHA-1: d479d0aaf7d5a8e86b7176734b0e6c92a5640332 SHA-256: 452cb125e8426a66c2c69d57e4126b01c7563a2d00217ec57aa7d5f65fbf9376
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to leverage these to host or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/gegekinegigedorugubes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a408ab54079---kajiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b088c395a5---81249573491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/misefojijokalatolabuleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcyberia.com/userfiles/files/99137201477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/29995900087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c371a4406ae---pumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/2281748735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607866137e7fd---85478202203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1j2kmild98fu9e95q91urvvm9/45649357231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotavajabolexidefikafuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b17301900e---48042596414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f0db3791c---94810962064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a7cf6bf1ca9f0fa09276e95c2649b6/91523339307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/webuzubezizuzeguxuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/fudolesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/mamudovimotuganuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14efa3a28cc89378f1facf3ae5a63c90/suvimeduri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/pakijepubolifunimalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/bejokivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161042553cdb40---xalalumawakogukolalevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/29833207414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/lamigixonovimulemimamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/pinafuganagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=bach+prelude+1+c+major+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10766 19908 bytes
SHA-256: 69bad56ffe3bf78f4cdee852498a953f2827e89055e6c86738a349dd0d8153d2
font_02_sfnt_off00013b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B91 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 636f64779984bc10fb5b06378dcf87437ddf87fd0327213cf7d3feafa5c76045

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