Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 452e369d5788b596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:56:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 487d1a069db9a9cb3187e09d5edbe16e SHA-1: c475c7b90909dc5086ddc96567c955c270c316bd SHA-256: 452e369d5788b5963b0c143422ec1d879c6fba8c399ca075fd42f3c4b77f85fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of 'utm_term=among us skin free download' in one URL indicates a potential lure to attract users interested in popular games.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://elitacasa.it/images/file/giruxojefavu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613852932ca6f---31285608336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandvloeren.nl/fckimages/wigugomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/6862005899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/melewajafimufaguvevizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inoxbienhoa.com/upload/files/93120040370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/483047727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/xirebalikarogalixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86295920228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poledance-chrudim.cz/files/file/tonisijolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/90289537956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/gajajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop/contents/jolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/92030002842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613030976c402---zakawuxadoxubifenuzudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96389546257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/vilezisubisiweranekexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/72766762436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldo.eu/contenuti/upload/file/44949991245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613590b757f35---tibuxulexavivebomavafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94817771152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mallenmediations.com/mallenmediations/images/userfiles/file/wojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/48866989937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210906114200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/zebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+skin+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD796 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 57f9b0f57e0ebf56dbc0885a7d690e1252663714e08818deb26dc753160cf464
font_01_sfnt_off000104a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB7 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 85abb897511231c574981bddcd202dc403f48d7620c0d01ef4f787ba30d471d4