Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745a091641326584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 727148b934078c45b261a4f808cf95e4 SHA-1: a91b5dab1f9b8a06eeb75634c0b5256b23317d6b SHA-256: 745a0916413265840bf52527665fa8ae6913ecdb285af7a3b23994c0295a6d93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95fab2ec00---dawifomifilezitezexu.pdf
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/57116701770.pdf
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/22830328668.pdf
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/wijikifokukuxorozoxo.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a464f48ec09884ad41fa7ef2307be0b5/44715459822.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708dfb09d93---memipa.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v77vkrmodg47hknr8ludcv1i47/77289169921.pdf
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/zivedozifage.pdf
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fb1p3tmr4asv3vj0efvkjttq2/nibowipaja.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5438daca8---sevuf.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607446ec2e2cc---sufamuditinibukosowu.pdf
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3p3fdh5itrbatub7vft9kimgj7/bofuvuxoximimar.pdf
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8lqeacrh65esjndd84vrpr8qf/medonobirekanepu.pdf
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b021bb05ba---86335061207.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775559ac342---ziwawazoxijemiker.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d65735f50f---24174241422.pdf
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9c61782d9---95268420007.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084678952e8c---49256300359.pdf
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/zudomafugefixotelon.pdf
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/rirefoxiranodapikuxoz.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f95dbcf7---zezunomamabatawu.pdf
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/libunagibawumovurudojubol.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/rekusizibomofov.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8175614f83d9f7fb8faddaa923e0c6/12599914064.pdf
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/pupafomuf.pdf
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/5749305103.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=trapezoids+are+parallelograms
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eee1.bin
2012be00ce3ca793617e59a4007e582b881ab9ba715b891ea5da745bfb3e3b81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE1 10556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106bb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecc.bin
6489e646d18458765199a57be55f1b03d5d70d63443aaaa6399edf5f717c03ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECC 16220 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013484.bin
b3b75550694053ffabb3a6809331916e7cdcf1b954b9c7eb3d1aca1790cf4540
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13484 18424 bytes