Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca537452a5af8d47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:02:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d5419df351704faf5fc4205dd77eb3f0 SHA-1: 636c52a3d164f81041bbc620835a81ab38d58f86 SHA-256: ca537452a5af8d47975547ee8c3fc5f46ea70d1c1bb32b55247733e8f644091b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These links are likely used to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

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://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf73956250d4a015eedc3984f8a8caf/82629716415.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae5f0472ed---32346858223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609635e1b3fba---filuxigimujutexozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09b9cac15f---17074323180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c923f5e217---53043897318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac26e044fe1---59701788941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/28955051095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070026abf468---6498475755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb3d5165bc---zerifegebirekinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojer.bg/files/48814526203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea9775785fe4528b2bfd93fb5b5b8013/64547390257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wexoxavabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f924d310b3---sigesesudesididolefuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb0087b5d3---zuboviredewanagilegenovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssqoda82a7eb0r18ega26jg323/xozigitinilepadetoxojotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu3hu8i052ti6ppr4ituu7lunf/kagujanidaxunoxewijimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/20177841277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/78836425852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/tekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/fupasekavotexawejobozekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/77837588764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608285d0df3bc---85609098971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975e8f4037fb49b03acf718909f3bc54/90359468813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/60288022547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=technology+lesson+plan+templatePDF 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_off0000f219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF219 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 8c45a5bdb8abae6e6975edf60e306ca4dcd4c78f7816a5d20f22766259e92a2f
font_01_sfnt_off00011e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13694 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 8bd31602a4a8fa75150ff10935b09eef5d762a52f32b5ad5eb22b61fd69a676c