Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45974cdda36e40a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:21:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 869cf5e4a137aa980c766ea65c102e82 SHA-1: 81f9ec22af5064e9e70126d8d0e81ea71f093c8b SHA-256: 45974cdda36e40a70cd04ef7f731418983118fcafb05f7c4f22a6796f7e03056
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'Powershell V1.0' in the document text indicates potential execution of PowerShell commands, likely to download and execute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbab35b5a1---fidezulukijebozaxuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5aq8rbe1qmjuf2p19951ciav0/jilimiwubobomudoxeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/84860535250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/bepexagupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59d01268f12ec547e39ca310004a568/95430532042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/vetinekevubavipax.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/18633424108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9dc94a196fedc23b0df42066b8316c1/rajojotukurotogozeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/31545872818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/dupexapiwizizezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comptables-publics.fr/userfiles/file/79189463854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicboxpiano.com/contentfiles/89715343504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fc7cf169b---28996742227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pemegili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedonugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88861669329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de22f6a1fd---48356502650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio-scan.com/userfiles/file/xapupogupigagovuwivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b06b074f3ed7f25b0b6987471ea7a94/fubizurepatelesabewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejumivusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/fulogojunikilulovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=install+android+apps+through+pcPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e73e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73E 10712 bytes
SHA-256: d0f07b069881bc806ceba355e49c97152fe47b259750fc279d4395c7a9657818
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7E 19440 bytes
SHA-256: 286cee0090004349fb95d21620667a17ae7966376eb7241de6e8d6bb52923107
font_02_sfnt_off000131af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1