Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 456b607360b84d3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7388d78480be25335e48fa500a299786 SHA-1: 8084e2573b2d3c4d2b87c27a153716e9777ab3e1 SHA-256: 456b607360b84d3b7109d7703f8438d1c4ca7515091977daf00bb67ea66bec28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is obfuscated and does not provide direct clues, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to classify this as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=powerful+o+words
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79db1580864c8963622590e9daae7512/famezogan.pdf
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40254675947.pdf
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a137dd3d4---84506651855.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14d7j29uf2a8qt0ijrihatqpvo/49651677195.pdf
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/12420801372.pdf
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/wodebedewon.pdf
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mumilinelej.pdf
    • http://motovelo-nmsk.ru/userfiles/file/58717976000.pdf
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/30169066712.pdf
    • http://quantri.thaisonpalacehotel.com/upload/files/xesufapanetitavusipo.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613215198ec3f---ginizilemamalurazujawemik.pdf
    • https://pchome.uzai.ca/upload/files/morumobasafozibuma.pdf
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilodez.pdf
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents/files/39336583728.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d10805ee90---wosapin.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04972630fcd01a2131bdee2b2b5914e9/18980046201.pdf
    • http://domuran.pl/files/file/96142981451.pdf
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/budugotobuwerufobomigeb.pdf
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomadif.pdf
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/zepalafotevikupis.pdf
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/jidarelenumuvenow.pdf
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30865564911.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4be.bin
4e13ad54e6405609ded989de50f4b5c8139752f5a23278f6eb8f2360625930bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BE 10080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb68.bin
187e9b2b4e3942f44457e8d31074991abffba67bff5149b2a78dab7fcb11c27f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB68 18464 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b5a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5A 16792 bytes