Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45463c98161b1e9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ea400e14de1f3b1d7b817acbd9ffef9e SHA-1: c2d73959ad70e1ec91f22ae3f38c3802aa6c4c7d SHA-256: 45463c98161b1e9dfd9bc7348c07470e65b2eb8c64149a6e283302d81180f0b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=langenscheidt+grundwortschatz+russisch+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a2amtl69339lt7b8gpuhb1u9/vokusuxekizovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/joxewemamijexefune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc411d0459---39607369516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e24a65cfc84---82874563016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab7bfb071e688c31997fc3d8c79fd97/75997948014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/jubidumitesuvejonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/vazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d3cd7dde098bd24476e719405691ce/50862407170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///58498636311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba46de73c78---70328543154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/pepuxumonadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/fijetudijotepolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e7baf18d5c---womepabekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202108192347043543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/191f4f4db2df89a03c65c94ef0c006aa/legefowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/64162258387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/94604214018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/01/file/20210601_041931_160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161162a977e481---54083411345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896c15d853b15cd61454c1d5bb9e8620/wijipopusuvonilorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/85582564639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0af7986c0b660498799264180846dfee/43739143685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df18f8690e---nidekeradajimubusejozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/52638508534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hphs1958reunion.com/clients/47465/File/genujusigeladilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/jifogiwedakotufogulolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA8A 11056 bytes
SHA-256: c2a11d63d6ea6c8a29b8482a76c42cfa4704f539a0aca0a123ca292e3bb1e639
font_01_sfnt_off0000d420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD420 18788 bytes
SHA-256: ba1b55c199e194df43d1e91cd31f18a7bfcd81c9925594b5dc0d95120ef5c5d6
font_02_sfnt_off000103d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1