Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 455b257f3a3c9d15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:07:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cb8e7b2009fc8deeaf9e2571a48b4b57 SHA-1: ee0a61a0e97c1fc8ca6e66d994cb72a383855891 SHA-256: 455b257f3a3c9d1538c2611b345046ea6c3044377a372dcd72d13f43ee236f5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/185ff1eaabb545ab9e5c7e6fa1866933/57277427837.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/15736960634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/86401332741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/76215555363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfilatinogourmet.it/file/boraxevele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/lenemugenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f4ba35f2377631847a0685f782a628/46478231944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/zobafaxisemodona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80ff3e4aad---1778867332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a313a504e60---65159534642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/fenemudilelune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94dqcfo7g1i59jsq5id76hpa73/nesagupogodemixirositonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konamumajapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lmjd84jrh391n4htul23uaqkb/diwimazeteratatalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131252572fb926e18b9962b83106e4ab/84123174633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/32832460497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/sisifenetiderinapogugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjc307stjncaiq57q96s0t4u5v/25205315721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/2772272283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11134959738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/36815167742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/60608477056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/40775487503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taimaobi.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimifibiragok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+otology+pdfPDF 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_off000161d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000179e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179E8 18616 bytes
SHA-256: a2ac46a5281b31a6f4718907f591f4f59a13fd4783ac9891186e938c3c29edf6
font_02_sfnt_off0001a9d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9D2 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 4d20d581aa69faf5fc264ca8f84b66418cdbf08d6a9826b95c55daf26197e561