Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745dbea9e9dd0ab8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5195a56ff7afbf5b4a8d864b714111d0 SHA-1: f4d275eb0a07d06b44bb15a2449ff834fff4b56a SHA-256: 745dbea9e9dd0ab88fd14e1de5e104465e7bf25da7861d4fa95367fc708b985f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links 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 for phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/28005150508.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc517ac595d---juxowula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed378f5b3dba05b75bd61a46da138c98/26219611580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ec5dec9d4---ladatufowonelididezumino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba088825a67---fifubudulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/kerixidodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/jadupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/kebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/kojarozutowurilezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fb96e12c0---nejivatuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7094535be9---devalogagupowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ec20deb44c48200184b4b4a5437f8b/92010375128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/99335357084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f69cb0ffe0---69120459308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/29382682967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3spqb1daankp6vujtrakgs038/kajolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210625090445406680314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548ffdc8de6656d5e99d7bd6ff632d7e/79988912514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b9648251a---48431447124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dcb5b199d---boxaxokefozogaxewebosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe9f21845---40326586758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92706e1007665a482290dc19c7cead0d/vojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=darcey+bussell+wild+coasts+of+scotlandPDF 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_off0001026e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026E 10908 bytes
SHA-256: c234806692e313332b9e3afb4e09f87f96db0c391da74c1ebafbed9174e5ab5a
font_01_sfnt_off00011bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDD 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 4a0263342dfeb4cc38435e440c9459c12bd835a37dcf221d43b981cafe6988c2
font_02_sfnt_off000149cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1