Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 452d36680a17dda7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-25 15:28:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 013e60af890b7f76d473a321994ea257 SHA-1: 3e385f29febf0b26be9fbffc955ef1d7373c1e08 SHA-256: 452d36680a17dda79ad1fd34cd92e6b388cc33bb9354fc28ad384e514ca856a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcd0d8ad8bbfd157b0fabafe23cbc2d/49470444997.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/xovalatoxetekase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732bf8e3fbf---59743069382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/zulubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31p01d25j56dqqrn30rhvha2tk/49402959956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/guvefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfomda99b8obpg8a4ofqeq1b6s/43417732576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g441g7581279eu53kcb3bhuro8/sawizajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/95837236339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f421fc4c8b6124500627ccbc20b207/31048106886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/pavemalivufaxuwoguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/18241101341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/xawepumanubanurekidomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd807e8fcd3---wapudatomaneginejotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efde9703b95---35668923055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e0743d62a1---5921434029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/48215004713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/daritifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c135ec8d6bbdd6f43d329fa599dbf3/42118441077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6b901dae0075d8d1f6c130134ef320/99497172824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/simenafixewubelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/25970744629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=going+good+or+wellPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081212f110c9---69471097865.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10202 16348 bytes
SHA-256: fdc3f250e16d4eeaac0151c08e1678493ac6cc67090af3137bc700c4cd553891
font_02_sfnt_off0001185a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185A 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 752d6f7e880be2387394073b4e1987a2c0db26e9a8f6c7d88a794aa58510895a
font_03_sfnt_off00012edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDB 17172 bytes
SHA-256: e9d3e5b2d9881cd1c99f7cdb54a10809c93735da12d2551e53ac778c2b3f8acb