Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 045c8e649f8b5912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:23:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 75903680caf3be6bacf6d1e7cb776741 SHA-1: 7fbf40d28d044c7700a2f97c31c02069add18013 SHA-256: 045c8e649f8b5912b1ea9b00b201fc954ee0f66e421956d46ec663854785ae0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm designed to mislead users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a phishing lure or a redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40862988413.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/wurudutesujipasazupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/76535084227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f3c96cb8e---tiwosimipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/48025569074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469a9e93f21---70409615744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dd3b16b0c---rikutamonufitilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/9785041243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/61067133586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/67750214791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/tagikejewusirowerigeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/86049853453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60217635715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/jawuroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021090810331889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330cf005d2c---kenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/magikusojowufaxawoxapito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourcampuswindow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13237196713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+fortnite+skins+for+free+on+ps4PDF 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_off0000ae82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE82 14832 bytes
SHA-256: 616a31a05002de545e09bb546373449b903ab6d0033c05e93a02823551fa717d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38E 10572 bytes
SHA-256: a3b94a3b73a5029f7f3db46de3cc8886daee3023dbf3fb1f6b65aa427b90d3c0
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1