Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4045a18f199bdefc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:15:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ca14e33b5251a1d7c2000bd974f32e77 SHA-1: 3e33911d98f4137d0774d97bd843fd220e4b1942 SHA-256: 4045a18f199bdefc8d20f6b707bdf48d24422b00feee13faf34a1700c8a30adc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic point towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+in+the+arms+of+an+assassin+online+free+english+subtitles PDF link annotation
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/99585192932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mascotdd.com/file_media/file_image/file/41091829690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109061246013004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/9044455137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekurutozizeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/30124493253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/20658997184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ee4eca03c6af3750436ac43b30819e/59538201543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/749328270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451fcbdc2e8---bitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/rilikikole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614176e23fa61---moralujobexukogevupokezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/vukuviduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/54056330642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/susudonogodanaloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocenfis.es/uploads/assets/file/32436120321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.lu/userfiles/file/bezajawibexufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/10559368226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viscom.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/43905461210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/37176352783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/fikusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanelect.com/userfiles/file/22066361792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/42193746678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e0fa0ad28---25275342693.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_off0000ddc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC2 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 9e019e6f18a41ddb4bcd33cd703428e20607a3f39024389c27af5e70dc39985e
font_01_sfnt_off00010de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FC 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 949ee79faf63a3ff0bf5f2b6e2a56068191b9f859d5dd2147c0f0e7b54f89c25