Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1145d0d5de723b8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-17 14:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2f9a58d55061363e892dc8102896eab3 SHA-1: aad1b6c49239cd9592d59fb2fc8ea680429cd6e6 SHA-256: 1145d0d5de723b8e7df92b1c5fefb35c035ad2d16d2a5095e12a538dc8474045
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of urgency language suggests a phishing lure to encourage user interaction with the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o451gpgnbk49hlrq1kvp0ag1d0/70182279870.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6178c281a58d260ae7c6c1352b93c501/26166683136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865d0a26196---98034934687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0cef51c1f1dabf0194cf518a7ca894/84512614905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/jovosobikesonoxofoguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8nkilo9gfla6nlf59v0iesp09/rafodomixixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8571a756a7---45364815660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be88fe07387e9abc47165d8044fb44e4/tokevetanutananako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/malobovuseguwepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794765a2b33---46917334056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/xuleledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607962bfd8c09---fixavodebazogemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/63003194217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779b7596a5b---22960323743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b0d1c71d1ead116ebfcb889561a6347/64928236790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/jijofevoboxugevowiwurapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=e+commerce+case+study+questions+and+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8D 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 45df3d584fa35a1a8ceecdc59345b280a20bbd7348ba5dde575be41f4fc43f64
font_01_sfnt_off000110a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A3 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 8f1d7a4d9744a13de9a1d44763e15dd4f4d253b4a287240cd9f529b22a873d0f