Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c457a28da526892e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 21:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a17cbc9a04c58fddc3e38f391e381d7e SHA-1: b55fcb409ffa1965bbefe830c33ca241d1eb9a4f SHA-256: c457a28da526892edd9f634f2d168a911c48c81a5ea7f7840e09dbf5cee564a7
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple high-severity heuristics indicating malicious intent, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It impersonates cloud document services and lures the user to install a browser update, likely to facilitate credential theft or malware installation. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used to distribute the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bd2ad881a---kojoxozunes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f208439f7456f2e09ae3259b3fc902e8/39968490508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/24983433194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/32612599156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/popimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r6ih44q865q4rru2q0c4jhhrn/30493525498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91bdfcceb1---92612085719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/vupepanelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28862ee8a5c4d21e5c5852e9c9e54bf7/saxifewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd9538334f---70603706604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa164dc19b9676f47384fdb21c9ca21b/lofonuzosewewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/muralidijajivodumolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5216ca14c040e12b92b67c479882ec7d/wujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/10013144936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/gepatidanapoxapore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijisidafipajisoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtsu7qi0n56i0ejpvlrivakiv6/52494649006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/77310443776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/26292349648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8bdc85276d6be70ed7cc4b1efd0563e/52814778924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/63031457344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6e64b9ad3---64219057701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/bikujozenufunuboburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfebrdopcicvk48vug29v4gl55/rizilizevonamelifixoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=google+drive+after+moviePDF 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_off0000e660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE660 10528 bytes
SHA-256: ab30bdb1ee7ee6a39ab60895d772c9e43e209462dde4bd9759c73b53c4142b1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001164e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164E 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 0888f8c9533a16920a060acc90a8a04a56019c6b51f8c252ef30f08650308d05