Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745847c6068a3bea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:30:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 16dc31ca62a551fd858a98c2ac0e7c47 SHA-1: a1ae8ed804db4921d746d27e5ce6ff0a0a90a17e SHA-256: 745847c6068a3bea84a79b0d41346680d446ea8091d0c12446f1b5b92f2407b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to WordPress installations that appear to be hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba451e4fe8---gimeverururupef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c74fb1d91---3760152747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/tonugifinikibefefejovejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ae188b413---foketefikafegoxematotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/23825447126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb24fedc10---5337807708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ddaac44de5c7567da3e9969fc08825/32640498248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734abe9a035---bekalamakejuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monocroma.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ee609c28220c2f31d22d14a32d4d63/88193200296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743357a5a30---67820337610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apogeeconsultancy.com/upload/files/43062273082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41584714164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649eb334deec409b3f55ce14fe616292/rafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7486da47a---lixolafupuzaluvokarekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/zamewabosotiruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de80ff2bff5af3fdae7ff56e478a8ae0/josixovotuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/68130931822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/vijakotivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/zivujebobilolegexifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8639a8f3a---11611406590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/kusubisegufosola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/30384531607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=enthalpy+change+of+decompositionPDF 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_off0000edb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB6 11064 bytes
SHA-256: d36afd1af1fe7daf45e6ceb973859f436bee8413eabc472b767a5162ee91eeba
font_01_sfnt_off0001071d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2F 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 7abf3e4e54877cafdf1fe1d4f10868a738eb727e912630bf3268e766c1ffa963