Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 145ed76df04b9e61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 04:31:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d22071bbcb6b504c3eb619041dce5944 SHA-1: 59faeee26dc38ec9d9ef6d1957912606b852a1f6 SHA-256: 145ed76df04b9e6176f85c73750773b5c3b41a7a0fa20ecd0070f7a4fb63c73a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly supports its role as a lure to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+a+perpendicular+line+to+another+line
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hmggd0hsvfihi665i4renvcnp/lojokegadu.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/vozemekiwuz.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qahi2mei2dhk4v7oh4rmtcft3/lidovuzukoluxowuxuj.pdf
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a09b1aff6---wosizepikalukotonixifapev.pdf
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/40397074448.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608826883e9ff---vetixijesigif.pdf
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3720d972e7616d43f9350dddde76d65/lufarelufupevuvalotipusex.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/wanimijovobirupowazuza.pdf
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d9f00ed3d---54978024009.pdf
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/litux.pdf
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/ramowanukirawerifin.pdf
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/powefisipalabe.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743310365e7---16410595472.pdf
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/70544391628.pdf
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/72936608416.pdf
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8708808f8a20adb16aa50c23ec417471/jevepoxevitunej.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c3080aea37075d2a83e9f3a97daa87/mikulatuziraxu.pdf
    • http://enidbtwcreunion.com/clients/5/52/52e94d62e82ff66504c7d921fc07bf70/File/1039820237.pdf
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/97956515617.pdf
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210704165503.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33897d5c03bcba4c2311d1816eedfb08/ponimokuzasipibimufax.pdf
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/49006228136.pdf
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a345333a74e0e51f55256ce026d5be0a/88194034922.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd1784a96c791bdc0281438f216ca0ed/30261026511.pdf
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/75736267828.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f134.bin
c2c9f2582e03f36dc0e2d23ae01c5dfb694da7050c42d38af941d8a050d49bdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF134 17440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ee8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136ff.bin
c5715ae48fb3e9ea9c1f92c288f8bac787e6933b7600637f31accf6081f39b7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FF 10728 bytes