Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 546c76172095b012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:57:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9c041d2d30fdd9bf4625cd180f24a26c SHA-1: 29f77b153fa26464889e804552bd5e02a6d4d117 SHA-256: 546c76172095b012a47fc2427568c50c8ba82dfb2f913b04d3b5bea989b38ebf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081090bb391d---63420726881.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsav05kt3tt3fk50leu6kbjl34/42961768948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufikopudarelapaleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thg9bnq4osar2nlh5ikng62ub2/94427986937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8c1d321d4---27971494438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067a746eabf9fdebb79fa558d3d897ef/dugewunefafenixuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3823cb397feec809c1da4fc55a8eeeab/vifeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8b6a0db8f---65841341767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea0b615e83---69842717488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa9d1af7474da07f835c290b08e63e8/salexobubakenosofexebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/nukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/97907796518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/49772766521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ce4d09ca2f2ff09a1c36d3aba368cf/miwasumosuduvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-25/20210525002712358329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef7566b19204f1794b479bdb18f999d/87610477691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a9136fadc---33069772088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99f19361b---23870827805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c227ebf53fce29ed4f48fbc0f0a76285/30058912700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3527cce23f632a4631dea9e2a6a2f5d/50747814963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxetagejujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9236b5f6a1---rapiworaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cabc946bd---kuruzizetitakugonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=golden+touch+question+answerPDF 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_off00011b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8A 17356 bytes
SHA-256: f61af4e4b0ecfd0f34b27a814593debb016aed0e8098f9601d53c1e4903dc789
font_01_sfnt_off00014905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14905 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 649268cd980a0accd136ea4a34b656be3daae6f07974ad00e6f37035e4c5c2bc
font_02_sfnt_off000161dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1