Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45399a8b32e549b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 03:17:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3238083479f315c1ed57f96da075fa14 SHA-1: 140de0ca8e0dbd41ae35101ccde96b44aae55a10 SHA-256: 45399a8b32e549b088c0be6eafc56b176dc2329ff0ef7238979317ed2e59d75e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to a variety of websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute traffic across multiple domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+look+tall
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/12302665889.pdf
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/39848721935.pdf
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/jagajorukevaxukatel.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/25707882517.pdf
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///62332322398.pdf
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/miwozugometarefe.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ab7605df4---wuluxelegifageroxa.pdf
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/44824583380.pdf
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/tivuvagakolumelenixafuna.pdf
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/97691497952.pdf
    • http://newcastlehigh1967-50threunion.com/clients/43248/File/18696581356.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8829f76635---seluwelitutifutelevevafar.pdf
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/vipokux.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab8a38ecbd762d1840227b057a0ce03/59727159820.pdf
    • https://hsse.cl/files/namet.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f24c08c852---41804187391.pdf
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f076838f789e4d5b752d88daea2a74e/rabijava.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b7ee8ad36---33853534214.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e21bdeece3d---45366924020.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b821463f848---23909166025.pdf
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/56087339302.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d95ce75828---berig.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b39794316---8129591190.pdf
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff67fcd473bdfea4d0cb38fb3388f9eb/fefilumilivuzam.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_off0000eeeb.bin
824a29c7b65c24193f0a38c6004d5f339d67e8e3fd181aec5aeeee2a679430a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEEB 9680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001041f.bin
b5c1ed8d943100862ae6cc25916f88f541f1d2fa728db5f60e62bf27bedd63de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041F 16724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f99.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F99 16792 bytes