Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45afbeeffd54b543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fa3d50970c31efa941ff102a2f18b909 SHA-1: 8c877050231cfc26cc84671b2ccee99b7412af46 SHA-256: 45afbeeffd54b5438f9a18b5590cd9cf83a37784ad207283651aab933822befe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+website+link+from+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/tivarabupesinewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-14/20210514115159306319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7c5f5b39b---11210996003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/89885408859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/67636654890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg94sl61mpdlv11474ok2016s8/wujuzilifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607997f8b0b8d---voxagosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba207a9830e---dizameme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takemehometomatoes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66740148875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q059a9p3sdshvrsaegnl2ns4u/bilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb6e169c92---detekarowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/zuvesitiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607097729d91f---38660900861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/11366868744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/619a49a1b74b78034d0ad6c0adc92a08/wezasetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1212c8c245bd9358c85e5b700ff1d27/25555576425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/10553201797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0914022058---92035995190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs1962.info/clients/3/33/33dcd814b32da85629335a95ab3d0158/File/wavawadisikodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116e43765fd7a44cb6b4b247f6c0a8a5/95262121236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqrtq3mbehitkcdr36mtnd0v17/25529566248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6cde5514d9---57088475240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/repanoves.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF754 10872 bytes
SHA-256: c303a7a9057750e52a13da9a4bc355f8b8b66224b5d9d7eef160b5bfdcfaa954
font_01_sfnt_off00011035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11035 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 7c65e7ea4432c4f89706712c3e4b5bf3c1a42017a19e9d5edb5a28aaef99eb29
font_02_sfnt_off00013c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1