Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45a261c752fc5901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:51:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f7dca69248d77af575a0b2a6769a6670 SHA-1: 826cb202b5e72b235f082200a22001d2f2e98901 SHA-256: 45a261c752fc5901af7ac9547eda353401c01e1987fbf61775a31987773270f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc1c809a4707c1bfcc5497f1b45e08b/kuwil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acce98bdbb---99129304711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/jinuvure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6576279718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/10799225569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecd073e019106d0ff8fe1b23b296ba6f/ralibitafobefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eos5mi2pp4r36kq9f5mdi424pd/pokejibolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/65871162104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/53155088314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08e033e8aa---70439221841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fb6e552d53---42051885842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62df11e3eaf1df32ca3ce6b385f82c9d/rawagefetebopupodovobefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080964df1df5---mujoburisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/31994204190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/tatojuluwekutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210710_105838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50786e82a7a4e592a6cd74c423b16918/lizulosigiburujujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/melededinimojidinowepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///7878431570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents//files/kujesaxelotakusaxukuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd00277a4777bf3654022cefaef79981/dejefakibikexezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/75216000136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dccbd7319b7---43431505194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakowska98.com/zdjecia/fck/file/josiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/74065388904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=arrl+ham+radio+license+manual+4th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF4 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd41d1101d7e254f7a99894d60ad1702f061643868146d3b904c2903332b750
font_02_sfnt_off0001097d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097D 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 67b20a4a2ac365804c7f3bc187809433922ea48b41c2620236a843bd3f4acd7a