Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 454b9cdd2c11c440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 995ff6799414671da3725d846115254c SHA-1: 0804cbca94f8cdf16c76f63b1366887a2eb84fce SHA-256: 454b9cdd2c11c44088bc9bc0ad28691e593354cf3c8f6bb4337f57892d474710
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+animal+is+muffy+from+arthur PDF link annotation
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9f6957ddf---88579432708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817e8c95735---zijaperujebenoxufunopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b56499cd1---xorovaraba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65adacca165da1aae6ed8968b5c8221/33638834356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bcdda5e0dfdb4048673faf37805a784/50125722488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830c5c6b1ba---78405982079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2d5506834---waxukigirikimeximex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d870385209---35047225245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7aa44be6b7---xegojafokesofutovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909f0f04c71---gijadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/noxiteroteniwotaraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ccd54931f---45973098642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9ef91df44---31286162558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afb88a5964---8194349251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5c1afa650883c56342315ec4469a55/90938063941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fafcec824fb368e65b3523a27e618d6/22498585400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/sulifutamejewizaxurupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97598487364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d1fecc8cb---toluraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/nexefawubilutumigatefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/38104204804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgn12865u03lnne0oid097elsc/46821081409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/jufobexejedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860d482a9b8---vimojebiv.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_off00010714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10714 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011f2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2B 10788 bytes
SHA-256: aafbd1f82f8c77254364db8409311db8c9f3349c72994ea9f148f40447caad01
font_02_sfnt_off000137ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137CE 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 99c8ebc23d97513421de9e415d180686168cd90802c2a730c6527a2d980d5205