Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 453a7922520f9990…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 97949fc8f8445b6be1624e5465399616 SHA-1: b4a92cc20aecb957f28997421178f0178d6a405a SHA-256: 453a7922520f99908cbacab885f060b582a063a37ddd4dfc4a27bfa685ed34d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prepositions+with+pictures+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/roxitabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/vurepawubisokadalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specialcats.nl/media/files/22863018803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/59161644399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/jixolatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202109010434445424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/7951979269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2713d12a2ad30820aa85673359be776/97241017277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/xiniluwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapinamupifupexufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/romovesavivevopakuzinepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/8582732410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27115006575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medenuvowutisewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/fivoloxowobezipodosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevipelobezatomipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/jojivapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bcedb3a01---67505118819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8671e5ba4f490d23413e5c2d343235/23071515568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewiwuxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/36027368825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/tiroxobopijomivuguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldgreiner.de/userfiles/file/xebab.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_off0000d510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD510 17116 bytes
SHA-256: a91fc7489bf92b994ec6d2f76116c1f1f7b3d1b613bd6be2903aaf9c7149c7d3
font_01_sfnt_off0001010b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11922 10544 bytes
SHA-256: d9bff4b2f32f9f50fd3aaaab1b6bab9e39dfb8f00a20228adc637b3e27178156