Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45941aed25d529ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bca583be2bba79d101a0be679d819b58 SHA-1: bd50f05e70cbbbea1cf13db7bf46dcd5cd32140a SHA-256: 45941aed25d529caeb37738c212d0b28f6661a54fd79135e57738acc9aacdfad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which appear to be hosted on disposable domains or utilize WordPress plugin vulnerabilities for file hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9890

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vowel+sounds+symbols+and+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf8e9dba53---xibomirodawijumebupuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7usf720es82bclrtfet2k6e0j7/nowivewadetizavimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/pisivusurovafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba46ceffe39810167dbfffa041faca92/sujurajibiboxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/82302574420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/45681655538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7c727b4cbbfe1657891787825d96519/ledozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b281173d2d0---3100124587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1bce392821---2825478607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/zumawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/13607344137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/wubidosoken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqachbaf678om2h9l4irrmggin/70711998727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oliahc2bbhdfsna3uutb087qq0/54786099228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/daxanekatifemotaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c992c03b0---81922260608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1633e95692d0f631dfecd3ae61eef73b/wenoradefofukodivovuwuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c392767fd9c---werisilutimepixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xikibudegukunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/52066157393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/suzidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/45906126319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6364935482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/90839382180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a77d5899---17704252020.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17200 26344 bytes
SHA-256: d5442ebdda491392cd9baa8e5dffd61e315c2793939f8f4e7bd773061d13f9f5
font_01_sfnt_off0001b6ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B6AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001ceb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CEB8 2136 bytes
SHA-256: 2b8006cb7154baa14f3d6d5f0ff398ac3f2527f3d1804152a7ade81a5ebfdc80
font_03_sfnt_off0001d858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D858 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 5c82bbf5f96fc3484ee6244051786e8f5df658d1730d1246b69d886c9cdabaaf