Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45accda92eab2c69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-19 12:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0de72bb1d3bb4ec4364855c3329b3e30 SHA-1: 678e40f6fb5e354c8c8d24d6f77ffcc0647e89b6 SHA-256: 45accda92eab2c6912c217a59fffefa10ad91b3b8a211da445ba2ad578985681
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/16294892427.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbrb8k648ikkvfu548n5vc6qpu/57949836377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86f80d8813---dadetidilekesijagipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b41f1dbc7f---37582542054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/goxububa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee090b19db4---69635363304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mnlex.it/file/11879106103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viecmarketing24.com/upload/files/nopagefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/27119474628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinge168.com/uploads/files/20210705054235_772678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/bowidekevomirakubige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/69128755563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmi2aga58778ntgibkkccc7ila/84712470723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/41898982759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/73268593419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f499d5ec8a---59709733773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2dbef913e4---31208870276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/zelorudadewafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3bfbd5ae8b---karaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/57759598875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac894fd2e48---57406258181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2vg4vhcc6n9rbcsdk4okjpa88/12451096575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/wifepujigogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5r7uufocdv6ekbjl1iurfenhg4/xogelobaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf3pc1l839nrhce0j0t3rfkjk0/delenekekesugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=moto+z2+android+9PDF 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_off0000fb83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB83 18440 bytes
SHA-256: ba4cb4bb9f849d59da1061fe43958f50e7f15dd6beaec41c9ece9ef6fa4e2c58
font_01_sfnt_off00012add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADD 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 7e19da590c07b67d9acdf9255535e3f4a187c445ab6317375ccb7d80a92c64ad
font_02_sfnt_off00014215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1