Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a454f57faec0390e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:34:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: de13c679a2f1f3fed198647a3ad869b8 SHA-1: f4f092fad7f56743698c63c7c1ca011100af57cd SHA-256: a454f57faec0390e8065380ae3818aabc70d070913c0221789908de84d11e8d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of these links and the overall structure align with a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=purebred+friesian+horse+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad34fc1c49d90b9f20d08e0cd4e9e35/3645121906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81dc0bd6ef---juwaxulesuridev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/puvaruluzusofefixerovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081629a4ba09---21255011373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vor04adl1b72kdiqos601ovpp/fagarezikitoruwuluzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743f18db6a6---kisudunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0224c07b1a6635fd033fb3efd3f0565c/vebofaxadasafovofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/funedawulefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083348dba8cb---roxujavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/54053134300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tel6f9qt2gm3oub7dai74e67o1/firamenasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814ff75e5f9---12631384423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/bisowozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c9e4e296d---9823660013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/5967200509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6c2b768b8ef53ffafe9e7ac91f95de8/kuminugerukuraxofanoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bfa2dc61f---30349935332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4107b24eae---bawopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712350b4012---43038522215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/540609a1d7e077475be42ce9fa2ba767/29351788228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609054b6247f6---83585289243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/13964456212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0588455460---xamafoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/gireke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF271 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 7e28d5e2245362a809d3d89add4fc6988806724b466123761160af6a95b08101
font_01_sfnt_off00011fb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137CE 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 252a7028859fcd6bf1dce1eb92185b31fcea96ed1f00db0ff0e04fc1ca84cd8b