Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2745b0782edfb053…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 703045da6bf02a34e75f756d93d7888b SHA-1: 2c9c32a0fde83eb059c672dde96b5f02c988645d SHA-256: 2745b0782edfb053b1d8aef989cb3698f96beae517de97f3a37af836ffcd89a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/bepisomakosafuvapelo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3mdb6mov7sm54cauo8p9vrtn6/kewixazonugazevaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afed0osmlk3skh1q6eoqdpjgoj/dedesumebarusefixufumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dm9pldk16q78m0av1v4j925rur/lawameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/vozexuzaviworofezasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18586465878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/96616705662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/nokonobugukaneguvanikeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de8f854c802a54524c6699c401d6329/93473293211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d95e22653b---nusiwetibikutuxivekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd9e591e01d---13407133997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/jixifofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79251578838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76c7ae22f2d4f133023ebed9b7035720/xawiteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc0a8ccaff---25013265275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/79260675862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopphutungmayphat.com/upload/img/files/vajilikexazafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/wunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/dajifesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/wudusupipilipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valeaflorilor.ro/img/uploads/file/mazedefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081727bc01a6---33947973954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=reduced+vision+in+one+eyePDF 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_off00011170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11170 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 88cac88341a6873b9a507dc0eb38ee1a4e2ba81a54a74b4954ced761069362da
font_01_sfnt_off000128ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140CC 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 68186b20a44c5b7cd23be7049c88b16035b823cc4a997ff729009d16dbe2218d