Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 045b4ffe0c98c60d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:48:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7e35760f68d59950e4ec27fffdb73d43 SHA-1: 71e17583f9298de85c367b83ecb6dc6ec47f1cde SHA-256: 045b4ffe0c98c60de9de9ee6feb3e9477b4b8ca639dc2e60152150823d4b04ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to distributing malware or leading users to phishing pages. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+action+games+on+play+store PDF link annotation
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c90eedcc0---70622312751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ee032ac0c---88466046674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/57191839626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yidaig.com/uploadfile/file/20210909094134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210912103611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39734676268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdprescription.com/ci/userfiles/files/nafogajirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/49196697845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/raziladopunogapuzidojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/javaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotodupixesitafozewariver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/44030058695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/najikoguxuwazogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/migapanokigibisapizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff747d364f---pikuzuxulobasajatesujusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/77652319463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16134d0a360081---bosegibemalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021912731249900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/gusumobojejubadera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/zuvoredolifuzifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--atpta-nfb.lv/images/userfiles/files/newazomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/96252923498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam2.com/contents/files/80687410839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s250801404.onlinehome.fr/img/uploaded/file/49595251799.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_off0000d47f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD47F 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 899500780afa0eafe53bd188d37b2e9143142b4d5f503d5354811ff82e4b192c
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C7 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 2a3e51675d23885f44e2e6cf513260035bd14978cd42c07c42fd0a72979d4341

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