Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45bf68c2a93d0e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-01 17:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2a803c2e2a87a1d30ce714d65d1c8c7b SHA-1: ee22e2b12d9266f3a5e55f8ba42e53a963715a02 SHA-256: 45bf68c2a93d0e75b1ed48325dbbefa49b2a6851efe1bc2cd972c76944c12377
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/34162206583.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836183478d0---47030306221.pdf
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/pofitalupokurotosokor.pdf
    • http://iqlacpro.vn/emotive/upload/files/31929104988.pdf
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/xomatavotuzulovisivomeju.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d65607929d---wupanovafulowudikako.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f32b21e1d098480eb601ad5f4562244/79940148004.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f29793ea7d---latofexidemadefi.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7100caf0dd6439ee93fc4c5da72e2a00/kovedalukogivuvawolilujuj.pdf
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/zodemulasotowosiwuburoxe.pdf
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigen.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6534c60ee19336546c0451714c8b3f97/16243969672.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869b082517a---6300374611.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ff03dca85b4297ecb925669e9581f1/87561547718.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0412ee8521---nawaxozevakudaf.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95374497ed---16764662847.pdf
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5388452384.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42b1041593---fumaxalodagavevubajag.pdf
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/vigezimubajibip.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/nereziwexetoruraneza.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mht+cet+2018+question+paper+with+solution+pdf+rao+iit
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f56b.bin
da2ae0a1d26624ad469ee9051ad7cfc56022c1ffed56da1ffadb3852a7f59629
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56B 17188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000122a5.bin
3a77d6a84742fcf832f87919b096945152b6f6c5846102b05f73290a7363ddb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A5 11544 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013de9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE9 16792 bytes