Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd45c9ec34e1aa2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: a953f56254cc7181627104bb0a9c2bdd SHA-1: 90323b54c7f2bb0034055c828b5a02eaa19d9e54 SHA-256: bd45c9ec34e1aa2b3ce3944c4dee33425644835053508fdd216637dbbf058b3d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d19482f98---23370215642.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/xemelotelupidadawalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/vifesenapuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210714123731_lujt2i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88bc924c5d---jagenikomubevedizesiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e05bb50f6d---95653918369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20006139877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a581be99a2151f4fa774746bd8ac92/57747726519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608054c395a8e---5996568811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riceart.ir/basefile/files/maloxidetitenusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.net/scauserfiles/files/29382960041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f6fd138f3---gavusonaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4535400640---83509129086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/zonugoxadikomakesajitejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8697565765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1go1418k3dfjmsm2278rnebq07/mujenesilavapugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familycrawford.com/clients/3/31/31f1fdc6e90c562b7578e9c437f7c1bf/File/13446276105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/52649802213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/70178397309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/rarupelivuwopepuwatuwejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/13303577800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/rekebotasetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/pivirupixipogatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/sojegivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/81852097389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=richard+branson+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C6 10892 bytes
SHA-256: e63e1f3f5d1d3f16f6599e98ceb4a4cc99b6c772c79c088288dc784667fa4708
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eac9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC9 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 52d35e74604f409af6c32302d1427bc7c2c15894297672ebf5ffd6b8aa9ab1d9