Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 457edbf448268a32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 08:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 45ba848983c35b7aeeb37093f33d40ba SHA-1: 77413f44488c6066ba7be41275471a2dfb0c6e47 SHA-256: 457edbf448268a32ae99fc63255d9da94ab4a689ac62b23785941ef97e63f35d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious payloads. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or content-luring attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/neluvufivitegezemevud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/26815413723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///71194736757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evpersoneli.net/ev-personeli/file/gevawezonesajizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2n89n792efakqbijuqv584lf6/goxalevuvojukiwofifagixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/54351924486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/17606019820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2ea39b3c---55349962977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speed-r.com/js/upload/files/63030026872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4idau5gdegae7k6h13kr943ve3/81942166400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xililaxesozoratazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3321da8711---zowudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078974ec8bea---jazemalaxodotanuxazuluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c00f475c5a308c78656c43e9b0f5524/44156837578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c2ca4332a21ff1693d1f3b460a6106/61550490787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cef5b96023---89478795840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b865662bed5c8ec91a91e82b35c68df0/40876941644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/kamezala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9df4a7ff6c8e8eb52e64f348779c681b/35547455645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pop-around.com/file_media/file_image/file/pobipegilaxazepixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d4a3cff7c---xobosubox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90672491692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/liwewagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/wakuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edk5rt3jhpjddl7526mff0uscn/niwakufekejamizuvobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ib+math+sl+question+bankPDF 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_off0000cf01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF01 10700 bytes
SHA-256: af24b89b96c925865e133a1447707e90ccfb0eb83b58c01ce6b14cb580996958
font_01_sfnt_off0000e761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE761 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF73 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 708a04a1cf0b810bb7ba49ff09b31f0850c4288b34ca97ce20b591ccd80996bb