Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 245132e9cff27318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 12:47:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3d36c91464b6bc791a2cc32dc8d8e435 SHA-1: 91a25e1cb3e831aedb7212b0494ee03c8e665516 SHA-256: 245132e9cff27318d313a031dc6691ab50fe357b509410287257aa5267c02e4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs point towards a potential T1059.007 (JavaScript) execution if the linked PDFs contain active content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://unitjaya.com/contents//files/273347594.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/raxeledexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bnsqek3t7knarlk6mlib768a1/57465957040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/29271947033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/zinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72349632086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf3b952f69---23644332750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609490b335fb2---70627491602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mga8hjfe7n6s7f6s9igjob5gbt/22867144058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc480e6a9e4---99165824747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/18867017507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49acf0fcb20105b21fc031da23792775/zedotepugiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025vbbitc9p4plruc8fpgp8q31/85441760382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb336ecd80---21211179238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd899c6d50b---40718944207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772325232e5---30910478559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa18d5465f7---gigebabakiwigizedamiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/34472017910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119e5b383b8f---piwevejixesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973b55ec336---23604063222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608942a4e3877---46052670869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2031a6b2dd680b0b13600b084d18095b/93378837025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/37318493978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f108da624ace3e07ec1a4840da673f65/68436343681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digetonewojupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabisori.com/userfiles/file/baranafekezukalezonisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=atoms+combine+to+form+chemical+bondsPDF 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_off0000e5cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CF 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 2e65e429cb39e7735d7dc5db1e31cda629ade73dafec72526020c9373d251676
font_01_sfnt_off0001114b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1114B 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc731be334211b655344ab4135f72c623d2126bc8a8d2bf377d6a7a4fe77bb5
font_02_sfnt_off00012a36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1