Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45159eb63c5a0663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 16:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: fd374f1ecd72c260d062fa86256235dd SHA-1: 4d0ccf8bf97d05ee9d36800dfb0998860b759354 SHA-256: 45159eb63c5a0663c70ed54d052853ffbc1201b21aec83aea1763ac97b8e70c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification as malicious further supports this assessment. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210918184136.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/29340135645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaszamocin.pl/img/upload/files/68730853214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/upload/file/rerazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/95735698569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18189630600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remont-bez-zabot.ru/files/file/72674341006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d97580b3d---dusibavolejomexixugolowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/zamavudawuzomefusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/59739083689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acerocorte.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/jodamusomefafufele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/87860946930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af315ea43a44e6513add6af2d4c967c9/mimabopixalizuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/sovubimezixugepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/57266441874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufodinufejugodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/kosugamome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2a27cae41---mezajevuromipono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/96150334454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/46780432904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136dae04de13---11243089197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maymaygiaydachidang.com/upload/files/koriligajomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140748896009---vonojagexuwodelujibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/mezoperajetakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/mikumurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mp3+video+converter+for+tubemate+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000b1e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1E9 15164 bytes
SHA-256: f97d3d08b104a8fa2da69bbaeaa7688e7704d77f34b887eb3418e20ba3e29024
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF013 11264 bytes
SHA-256: a522eb906e52aa9972888e4dee37b38c6a6da393905c1472fdfe852de64da9e7