Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45ac265bb5eee177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2caa77435f38fdb70ae112c272833bdd SHA-1: d81bb5b3c7bb28c9c9d78000d9233b9138135be2 SHA-256: 45ac265bb5eee1776f6d4efe3c3b31e534d72abd07ced804d54bc4dbe09cb585
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a potential phishing or malicious document. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs point to various domains, including compromised WordPress sites and domains associated with link farming, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210722082441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee59ce8679c---86109133524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads//files/202108022347235544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/39044215757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916a5445e1f---lisovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emekyesiltepe.net/images_upload/files/sikogujefazukidesufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/vegabenufefifemolikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/75720616482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210623214505_1198719789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/98692809351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce3dc1b4c3---teririjeviderasotanisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf27141fad5a6ec7ceaee59092ea6b3a/34385378033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79f844495a589c5ec4e05dc7016670a/kedobujonukiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3bd2bfc3c---bosifewuvuvosuzasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8oq43q43do4v5lapqu8dnspmho/minamupazilurufonelodafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/museziganaxepigebasizabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/pafosabowibotumozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclaw-effatha.pl/grafiki/file/fukepexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/64853203463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/31997179935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/vigoroseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/90949852767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/82344966296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kin8mmalcs0ho1rta11q4t82t5/nazujopibegonikabanurari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aml2kd445akdj5dmjl3gfkr13/nasatofexuborukazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pci+syllabus+b.pharmacy+2018-19+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_off0000caae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAAE 16448 bytes
SHA-256: edea17511cf1cad3cde2cf343e249e1235ced7e76c047bde46025f387e515fe6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF561 11556 bytes
SHA-256: fcbabf42de5ca3e88a79540f73cd261664f2a8528cb0186f2deb1e4df2c2a2e9
font_02_sfnt_off000110b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1