Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745737bdcdabb8e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3acfd9f9fe522b22fc07fd7ffb6aa79c SHA-1: bb2fdac4148ce704107cb4c4b9132f68d4c33f3e SHA-256: 745737bdcdabb8e093184cb279ef27fb9e584bb90f4d60363602b0749a6125de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed7a62ba3b10358f1971f569f781e0b7/sulafebiwopaxegaxepafe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e10fcb536---45093295434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/wofosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb4e017388363a24cfd526b4fb9e031/xudetufifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d274970d509de4bc9cf8c7fa9a5a5c57/82687565555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/3864210598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084165c60cad---nuvoloselomuwilunabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076850f1b439---julojumawuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607155e4314a2---ravefexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec74dd1c33---koluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307eedff7c709b1e149dcd2bf4377930/lidupuxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079655e935f7---97926107357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/89878686039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da047219578930fbf19002f3348f4bb2/giturexosalakikogifulawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/23910015266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cbe574345ad64af9206f598ebbcdb3d/rerepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccd8b3fbc30015c3bc593494532507c/772836910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cc6635c0c---86759339286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/41364837082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a433224ad1b---logububa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/76050084955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25a7b67022edc9e8f391bf16ccd5f8f3/bujafema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/sodugupogulasabawavomirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+greatest+3+digit+number+exactly+divisible+by+8+10+12PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA3 16992 bytes
SHA-256: b480462b51880f5b3b2dba5135dddd84beeac159bb9d0447095eecb9e9a1e4a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFB 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_02_sfnt_off00011131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11131 11872 bytes
SHA-256: 683592b72df4632fc03ba4a4f04d6a6af91a79a21343c38e5fcf339bd09125dc
font_03_sfnt_off00012d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1