Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 445c1495f34c6bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 09:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 09e7975381a21dc871664bff6bfe6b51 SHA-1: cfa1a188dcf29df8240bbaf08748c9431f12af98 SHA-256: 445c1495f34c6bf043382b52b402eede323beb53f4b47f162c1470afebcbb2e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely used to distribute phishing content or further malware stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=building+your+upper+chest PDF link annotation
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0918446001624221156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/vuriragidebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4faeea91b9a3a4d4858b03dc1b2069cc/deriwedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784a371b2d---10380325443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed3fdaef6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789c46c2e85---4680113303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/jipiviwajevuxugegifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5vhdtnfr341sv0q23126rmu20/1265338014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be87847fc14fdb00762e551dd2dd27ae/97013913603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tj-1970-50yr.com/clients/e/e8/e8fccb6fb94f20b6ca4375945b3939e1/File/94521105238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/ribedudonegemuzusoradopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082561e13e87---26372547363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997218b80e38b45f85db26b22a501ef3/doporibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080211cacbcb---manaxapotoparugari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tycoonmarine.com/userfiles/files/koguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741c77e788d---5212870520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7274854db8---39460147793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a3c9e2e5229b4c413f8bd8df10f482/darupavaxubetune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/88795209837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/bowijuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8e0c2cd4300e3d19fbd871da33aee9e/89611038375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8350c98cbb9d7cab9917c6aa8b78706/xovubakitubupoferedosigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4tr27v90h9odeef4or69tm39m/46811392755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lba1ocstsnotjlupuutjc6j8dh/91387023422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d74e7e7ad---bujilepadumoliwivipok.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_off0000e713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE713 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF25 15596 bytes
SHA-256: 10df92787f09b5b864706bb3ab1c9c559c636d17842356b66bc734ffdded26cc
font_02_sfnt_off00012722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12722 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 7bb8afb018ed2c5cb37d9f5315e49c50be61d734e30b9f0daadf1907c97b2e77