Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45312a5370a0b348…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d066cf7b1218d2267383637c6688f5a7 SHA-1: e64c1f2ea3ab1a3b2641eccb38ae33c8216b00b9 SHA-256: 45312a5370a0b3486223fc389a2886cbe2adc336d06c1a7ede90526ab1f33a02
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=vsco+pro+free+download
    • http://prosquash.by/data/28663256014.pdf
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/wotofa.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408c2535e01---2788643766.pdf
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepusadazesojigamufij.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/bajudegivusanowijeziduge.pdf
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_F3F4E6E31CEA24EB.pdf
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/wezavewerulaxubugigogu.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142595f8e61d---37380086192.pdf
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210906155833.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ffd147e1d5---95310303522.pdf
    • http://twtime.com/uploads/files/202109071056058325.pdf
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/14120254076.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161440a25103ab---nuvugaxef.pdf
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/31840463286.pdf
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/99694123387.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e2ed503a1---57901646108.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9t6aqict9bgl1o3vq1dang0i/91066604929.pdf
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/82971916092.pdf
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/28035453780.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613175bc2f9a7---36289482799.pdf
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/50181666486.pdf
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/46964005377.pdf
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72160496827.pdf
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/64851949158.pdf
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/bepozomu.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_off000117bd.bin
6485558994db17a2e1c6c509277fc1aba1928057d3a682b5c24d47152165e159
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BD 10476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012fbb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FBB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147cd.bin
7f52b7b74421df1c912f3026c27e46c4f422a58a67928cde772101cab910d504
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147CD 18872 bytes