Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 453a061673d592f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 23:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 968c3125d3d55ca725b2571dbf763c34 SHA-1: 709444bb105f5e23d017b4072d3b35ed67c2039a SHA-256: 453a061673d592f2f2eebde3bd73e7817d76cfec6ce9ce4a1d30075d0ef0d692
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bluestacks2_native+windows+7+64+bit PDF link annotation
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/pekuwidekuvewabeguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489699e8075edda4448cf53059f4f90a/timowidizarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee6f0df86ba6384b7bea58cc5a8a8a3/86249938393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/kolijofavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f3f1177253b18e5bc167c7b783ea8b/vepozarovuzipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a87cce09f0---67058256113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/47782057693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/79817177597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1044ef14f---kibinifererazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/32230897321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5b06e8d65---39443408826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/dakilavefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e07f5bdc29e487a5def59dc575601165/xatorakodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c290ef31674---zupuluzasonibepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-11/20210511095309774064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ac8a8da4fa85561f847548f5c809feb/46279405000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EB 5728 bytes
SHA-256: b571e2148d2f552179b84d9994d3e3bd8780bad6ea3155eb4353f8bde0fa996b
font_01_sfnt_off0000faae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAE 11780 bytes
SHA-256: e95b6e8d42929257c5b964c2dba06d05ac5246c32a4c6cc265bc8d01c7ec6a28