Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45157f19abe72a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

151.9 KB Created: 2021-08-17 05:17:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c72e74943712dd31f83ead6074a382eb SHA-1: 23de92a38b1b296e9eee65baa51616eef6d192ab SHA-256: 45157f19abe72a5fdff69aecf89ae6558317bee72341a287555489f48bfd087e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as lures to phishing sites or downloaders for further malicious payloads, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://info56.ru/userfiles/file/82819699692.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcmu5ts952nn3jo4nsr2omjjs7/wewasupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/48509855999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d131a576cc693ddfe353b60767582e/86116897305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/61987988532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/59911269350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cda56eda7db6aafee415fe49a5fd9b4/59016878802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210606120338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080418c38a80---69524787927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowutodiboran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86ca49c3f8---molepifupoxitugidumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//jofuvutalexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/87358821965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nofevovuwubefinigovudopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c80d36102---sebijovuwafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115910854fc9---majimarulesadagabamanegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10208192423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroupe.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/bumemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fe39e749153c177d03b194d52411a1f/felukeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/60904578708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/joxoguposokaredogumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4klynchburg.org/clients/3/34/34420611de4c9c7593cf5e5fe12de6df/File/zepiguruwari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3+%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84+%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8APDF 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_off0001ed77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ED77 8984 bytes
SHA-256: 1155eef8b03fb48db8196c62fe92ea0367c3129ef5e52290f3da045cb9446085
font_01_sfnt_off0001ffa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FFA3 20080 bytes
SHA-256: 099697da6167a2aab5ef02352d7a0c4cc433a333b8520070d174a21558a52f10
font_02_sfnt_off00023217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23217 18424 bytes
SHA-256: 142a1d1302dfcd8db5fb1af75d11297dd1a516a423cb1e03b252c544626bbfeb