Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c7e242c8c29562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:15:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ec2f20129c299fecee54151aead29e03 SHA-1: 4c50fc78f8f96e71271b5abc48d4c99712cd6f1a SHA-256: 45c7e242c8c2956202c01b5b4b54b8ac68875b6a149159762f98a4673c12ba5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and utilizing formcraft plugins for file uploads. This suggests a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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 http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d78035185---rofelarotupasevi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/20113511346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/damunajapuvadibaravifawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/ledewibadoxeretosezexuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/61945335975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/sedirakunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/mepiluvowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b248449d584---39885875255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cf9fe231f---20054529226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej5h524af7ql5dvc1riuflk2sd/70966359194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd5lg2herlji2c740l7kpoihb0/nuxuronuleleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qprd745nu8imj5h9sksq0cnbfj/wupopatalugigosuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009ccc9c710239189432fa09c3529b53/5311399601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d52a0c31431---65670986933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/95314592578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2c4380a23---bozamabilurepulutitolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/95226819961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/20974823097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ekrbu78q8nii7thm1hudbm787/litaledonexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2fslovshpc8igcqnc3qukk79h/rebebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82705139890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/21172344650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hamilton+beach+food+processor+70450+manualPDF 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_off0000e245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE245 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5C 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 8de7b965432129306250e347e8948440e3da96f8cfe1f46d0998dcef42886ac3
font_02_sfnt_off0001152f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152F 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 28bb719e660f45ef1db3830630ca7127fbb1ea1c86fdd5612704a5de0340a1b0