Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45bea1a51baaed8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 01:41:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: ad5181e5975f02461832c73adc67bae5 SHA-1: fb28d90b160d13d268bfa67c71f1bd0211d4075e SHA-256: 45bea1a51baaed8c86b9a78ee7935bb50d960d9fdd96bb7bd29215f20c228672
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/torerib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/31206640365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/43112737470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d21ce2add0da1dfc1e3e005af547de9/5161259228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/82752460927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59948474725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/33154164751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/xufusediselefazuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/nedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d69ec4uoinhbog613lb32nh9g/rifapobulojuxujuwivageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce1ea71f323a3d9cb1988edbd619b17/54125172666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/zejipenoxugubumuvolamekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/5879289430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/92752787103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/81481454828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp6r9gfbd07nbg3f9dhq7ops6j/5793722469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943333db331---31884177976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huo61m2dfi1gbct69er70a5tt3/17885508079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/89384023739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad553d59a2b---natudutivavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psihodesk.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58961589667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/xiruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=goodnotes+daily+planner+templates+free+2021PDF 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_off0000f600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF600 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 35061678e6c37af765ac5a13afe36bbe4f00aa8e3bbdf76d089b676804b5a781
font_01_sfnt_off00012441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12441 11108 bytes
SHA-256: cec08bc4cbfcadc0cb1e1d6b270a4fc5f4f755d79db4f8d0119098295da49639
font_02_sfnt_off00013e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1