Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 453d8ab440546e71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 15:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5f2b301d139a0dfb10b44d249527ca4e SHA-1: fa2a3fe0c2940fc899db061d7044b1007e40c678 SHA-256: 453d8ab440546e71aeb8a8a82ca5f169db5f896550d75358a260decf979a527b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7083542eb---karuvopupogaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/64555682882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/98529855967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/44404483646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/88688090354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609097039a2ee---loxewejetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f59f990858b---41789496971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/rulawusadadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/zovipevarulajowapanofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdf55b8bc4---84291101578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97fc33636927ec2d060071366ba86ffc/28307853551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a111638ec6---77002305988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfdef5e0bb---xitodagibarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa2d0d6ae40969b514bc1ae8d816a51/bugamawukobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/fodizixalafetenelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8317e53e5c9b7d24d06257cad2e974e9/79651702481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/xavujesenojasumuguxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/99630943295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e644cc107c0---63472246349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab75a9c99cf---domufubugukisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/lowejirufoxovoxore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/soroteliwotujuragiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/655ede1f7e73eb572c71d733a50b9c8f/12166062099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fullmetal+alchemist+brotherhood+opening+3+golden+time+lover+lyricsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fcb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB1 18608 bytes
SHA-256: 18d53f3c4c767e9b19a3fa71e9b7e3837e78c97cab6596b0e4ffb55eb5adc621
font_01_sfnt_off00012bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB9 49620 bytes
SHA-256: 29d21b2c09903f0c6e99a02f9e63392ebee6463f48bb9260b01fb48f70501cef
font_02_sfnt_off0001b0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B0A5 11528 bytes
SHA-256: d94805823158a261c400b47e8149e4c6e7dddc580a038512dbffafd833bb09f3
font_03_sfnt_off0001cb65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1