Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45086209641e08b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 909301c64ed04bb726247f72a0b21493 SHA-1: ca611b7268157a9c436cf8a0ea7a490efc91ab9d SHA-256: 45086209641e08b79b31999d3af780e5efae7b0b3e3989f45ef4ad188bad8796
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to external websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://ipai-bg.eu/img/file/52632955755.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/nusizukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipzip.com/userfiles/file/dorisagidesuwufefulowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78541610392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn9fi1f4c7tfddud9pqju7cri4/85096477749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/fokopuxitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50465971153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao8al0ekeu1da2fbr4j02pjo07/88712888890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613794fb13522---lapalikawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinaweb.com/upload/file/zaxulikamarevexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/15804650313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/90898376948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1631687735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/11521997971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417103db8e4---lekukazupegusuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunenudolovevasumuzunora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/13918232452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33818924282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94158db9799599ebaadae18f90662eb9/18015221157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/9213248323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/kijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/zadatekufabudegutufasosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb3ce1d25f---geniralurudevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=best+tamil+live+tv+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000c519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC519 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2B 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 10d6f77651c4e1c34634e7c29b08f5191b86ea260915cfca7ea4029a6e2a5cc8
font_02_sfnt_off0001078f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078F 10776 bytes
SHA-256: a91fe1c76d9e1903cbd15689dcd912e3f5bbb069c30bac5211ad652b39401728