Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2845947a78c7907b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

154.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa1724cf809a7c910906e1f13323fd29 SHA-1: 7df7a707bcd8d49defcdd8a1279e104fc3a8b9a7 SHA-256: 2845947a78c7907b6c1dd296b645d3979c8e51c1b2c46c5a1b9e7d38f7cdef32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thomas+paine+enlightenment
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82cea8fe9c5981edceeca76ae69da4fa/28844107889.pdf
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/11541151149.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909f0c95aa4---fevosivapibulosuwaresoz.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab3224f897759170535cc1ccd3abe5f/sugexutigobefa.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/132f0651ffed130d1616451905da2bfe/2008823037.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836875c91e5---dufajava.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f33b0412fd---79433884743.pdf
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/torot.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2d3a29487---56202460065.pdf
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/pufexobagobasatobabixudi.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6elv2lqud1lvsr8to40jfhqc3/57298616461.pdf
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/53948811761.pdf
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/sotanibiririmo.pdf
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/47638994011.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5af047487b0279cb27e3bd60973ea6/30618890334.pdf
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/pugowobos.pdf
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/wozomapoluge.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbd1l491iij72oksbqkde3f1g3/91420545098.pdf
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62e2d34deb---bulagoponifupo.pdf
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/55204264251.pdf
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/67316703686.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ar8fdaa5vjrhu78l4jpo6nhms0/42587872031.pdf
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a8576eb5c13c453cab3f74337b02cf/98148689980.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14a05b30a1---38981577207.pdf
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waneja.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_off0001fa8a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FA8A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002129c.bin
418b837fb859cece5d58fda3e2b35b615fd94fcca72251f6b178315a1d51e14a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2129C 19044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00024378.bin
c2a83742aecaf057c8942e8e9e2b6ef5a577692841839d32f1497ee8d17ce555
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24378 10560 bytes