Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2545a51a86082f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a486dcbeebf841eab4ba93d3f6598ac0 SHA-1: 78b06d727afa4dce0b10624b577c9856d0fdc445 SHA-256: 2545a51a86082f91a17bc2f5900cbc9420542c4868d156bc0a756fc94c77e7bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+android+phone+mean PDF link annotation
    • http://dichvumucin.com/upload/ckupload/files/2635856032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be2fae29ab1c0d197c69f329521c70f/3972912181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/fukuniwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/85370242276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nincity.de/inline/file/galepamamuzuzebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/lusilije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/18993692751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/depovufibobazuresuxizemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majstrissmt.eu/www-data/file/92058839627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/fititudetiwavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozisipinibazisatexone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/42454572799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136398153bc9---73669170886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/44106119627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/tagakivetifene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357795d0a9f---49490260125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/5785191135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/02/lobarinowubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f4ece2f83619ac8cf885e7359878fd/sutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/juxuwusovepiseziledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd404057f3feb555da210f706feaa353/430874058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed9be39a220dcd66c653bbe37055f55c/jukaraful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/nomumowamivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA33 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 99b0a56fd4f774319e126c889e365eec130d9decf50ffa1d07293e972aac8198
font_01_sfnt_off00010235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10235 17620 bytes
SHA-256: e0bf9c93a20d407bbdc32c5ff226e3446947d8619bbbcf21f8030a2454a026b3
font_02_sfnt_off00013044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13044 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1