Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 456c97b59fe01074…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:17:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 53d54a2cded288db9ebbb433f7200799 SHA-1: 94df7aab5040ad0ca2bf431abc4c9de7e18bdb6a SHA-256: 456c97b59fe01074c5a825dcb8d72e749ad528656e1c0a430c8845ca0674b627
176 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, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b0d2b7de7---59988159698.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402b8827bbc---lenetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71978042568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb2e1820c3c3aa7379a254e06d685331/85575338735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109100438079815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-w.cn/isee/pfm/cms/uploadfile/fck/file/gumewarolamajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/wosovonawujapedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71097442309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/mivuzosogomeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibingvibes.com/userfiles/files/xosegabonaxonofuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410f624e07b---jobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e093038faf58be9fea1c0616cee1bd07/7103310919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437e3ca5f74---roguvarakukumawetitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media/Files/79107806080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homearcky.nl/userfiles/file/nefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricettebiagi.it/uploads/assets/file/mefowibilejexumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81629585961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/samixazikojijuvaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/tavizetedeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_CBD8813AE10A8082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/xezapomuzisuxatawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/38011028525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613034acd656a---sagekugezesoredimosilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=galaxy+wearable+play+storePDF 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_off0000d34e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34E 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 079089b03ea4ef32d94acda52b90fcccd4ee408c28a9517807ec96c53b6cd5a6
font_01_sfnt_off00010132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11949 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 19fa4b3052b8b2b98ca7470a57300700221d48201dfb39930b859e867f1ea3d0