Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 457a84cfb72237c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 22:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 064d5f1285a92615d33437516929da6c SHA-1: 83e4e50e5e9d24db2d881c728a65209847fb29b5 SHA-256: 457a84cfb72237c979d6076c7842e2a40756afccea02f7a9ee864c95bcfd4080
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+harry+potter+and+the+order+of+the+phoenix
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2e5c00292ec81bc53c0336e2e7d1c7/71713798947.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0980554abb---nuzusazukowudij.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717ac1b1cec---ditupoji.pdf
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17949698465.pdf
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/zeriw.pdf
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/06/file/1623609327389900672.pdf
    • https://bmat.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/64983711571.pdf
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/boxoravizelakefenobipom.pdf
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/82998334526.pdf
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97294399925.pdf
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/wutuxebojozazom.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34327f2164838732ed22d058f315064/jixirekaroxilofawodobog.pdf
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kveucn3075ps7qj2ai8o9t3p6/badujipolozuzimasuvuxejom.pdf
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntvkn5fe1ejmqov2oq9l74fhgn/miworowukufovowi.pdf
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/juwasenasususimanivi.pdf
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_EAEEF5A61367881E.pdf
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/25378585215.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0cffb1258---11700587614.pdf
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ccb90fb79---jimegujakukelixuv.pdf
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/36814674096.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc30f3f468---dekavad.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d35128d392---noxubidaboxibokavosejow.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f208a98b7b928c84a6b81332bed6cd24/jabutonuzerijosugazana.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a4874c03b---34210773760.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7410711b85---76063481874.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_off0000d0ee.bin
d4ecdd7abe43de0ce8753a500c33ea4cfa7c47f653817110215dc2898d00ed74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0EE 16908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fccf.bin
cd16d2dcda095d73012111eb0242d60587ab5a89152d86f145eed49d7afc4d13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCF 10588 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000114ea.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114EA 16792 bytes