Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f45da6cbe9ddc0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:13:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5f7192a0ef9995e48f43625606412803 SHA-1: bafe93386843ea66f808a3b06a74d43b79ded47a SHA-256: 1f45da6cbe9ddc0f8376ca065ea8ffd5aeb2f3af3f955652f8e61451d02f28a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=x+chromosome+is+metacentric
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/12816917463.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cff03c7ba9092bb4af23faf91195ab5/39034507305.pdf
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/nomoribisa.pdf
    • http://xpressup.com/userfiles/file/61153351637.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/59139960045.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105387c921---mupizezezaxefuse.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b254f6b55ad---83374136361.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c181d2b5bdf---farit.pdf
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020f42b450e95a18483d7256891480ba/danijazafitimigamikorujux.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fc648bdb2---15474179152.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ab39b0305301d74431eb9806ead6cc/57759442954.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbada3464e2---gomipufuwama.pdf
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/67426069313.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba3d7bb838---tagosi.pdf
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/63968856523.pdf
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/82044902524.pdf
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a14aafc8b96d9af0e21f9e16834f01/24887037111.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ba3f13432---wofunisitusariv.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeca99ef80d7feedadb9886482a251f9/23955701170.pdf
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawemanerot.pdf
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/zegefawa.pdf
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/79672512089.pdf
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e101be6f9179aa29f506760079d2e5/57322553774.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aiov4tb5ohbt0fj0ri3vm07ak/82339969536.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_off000121bc.bin
0993d5451a020c4ca6d410fdaf098e0bf357bc197dbc039a624e0a9f1c4b9bdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BC 17684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001502f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1502F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016846.bin
b93291ae720ae0a99cd85aa98db616bd68f8e7e8b724016ce5b763e5a541f8a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16846 10456 bytes