Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 845760f14c096eb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-08-06 06:43:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0beacafeea17373ed62057f2e0d845f2 SHA-1: 31f2a525ee3a0c9bab3cc89c73c4e65f46d963fe SHA-256: 845760f14c096eb4c073848d381148ae348d9be36dcd8c905b3b65f29f995494
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The presence of multiple links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF's structure strongly imply an attempt to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210619_232344.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/tavinoloxekagimejediwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/mosibafowiwarelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c4e9bec7a---54355301800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/44985601539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/46766833747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c873c5145---2706800075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1db4c3e723---37633327254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/6507925571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/433gvc161riup79bi5emvnh267/fekofuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4b46bf5bc79fcce7ab4acd15b4d893/talupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/550cdbb378cfdd16fe43e2f21e7b04d8/jalamakefugudarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a9487357---3413318230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab614177c6d---93221079841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db8812fead---sotofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/sosujawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/liguwezubebezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/85680231928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents//files/58411999676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tomavevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/17925068242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/65378247336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6if1hrbrhsggg1f15mathvssc1/61524503752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0d1700cd---xixumoziwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=xforce+keygen+autocad+2015+windows+10PDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA22 4732 bytes
SHA-256: e012ae8ea345df4e51081b42dc91332370eb996b05135d3bca702c0d8a7fb864
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBB4 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_02_sfnt_off000110fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FA 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 42775a13dfc426afd0fda3fc819aa2942742cb8dcafda60e623f24d23426de9c
font_03_sfnt_off00012c2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2A 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 514404ea3afb7e197ca331566b67ea8f01cfb21284eea736d0d8e5e3aa7b882e
font_04_sfnt_off00015beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1