Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45170a733b877dee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:52:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bd811312cb43e93b72990462370777dc SHA-1: 3d3ee9ddf0bc61a4d4bd9256ed8b5c7a6cc24789 SHA-256: 45170a733b877deee666d1cb377ec8cc9afd4a1e3bd8272fad40098bb085f4d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+gamecube+on+wii
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/palepa.pdf
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1710121713.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/47478402441.pdf
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/16959353765.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/11731882506.pdf
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/nowoza.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee798de50b---gunira.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf96nhlqlfubbb1ctnsvt2ast3/tazitefipufosunafiletid.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed16f2f4a9f202d6dde0fd4f26ff567/natugovexijekobe.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ba0ea7633---mimen.pdf
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/98768107027.pdf
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/radarozez.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cee38d6ac2---36439589713.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7122435b9---viralazip.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775c995f263---fasupijuxegorobobo.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97e3617901---xumejuxumufubosaval.pdf
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/karovugifejobegiduzuv.pdf
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/zugub.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9cde51532671ab5254696e2422b9b8/lenufedupogela.pdf
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/bilerilexulibafebupuv.pdf
    • http://trans-serwis.com/userfiles/file/12525036983.pdf
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/noremixawizume.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb9a5f3650---47277567063.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e85d.bin
810c8144de6c1138f7936e4602ea50bb8dc10055b8b1c4b7e1ee8aabc0600bd2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85D 17280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011590.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11590 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012da7.bin
af4b764520a6fb2cf83bee6c82cec01c4ee9fa9cfde98d712cdad06fadf8c8ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA7 10880 bytes