Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c431cca9e43226…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9d3fa59067c528f4f736840e64a5f7fe SHA-1: 28b19bbe4625b19c67fe331b74e272db05ec19ab SHA-256: 45c431cca9e43226a782eaee143302231ec338f2ccaf459f149b5ebc607673fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpls8s2cffgdjrmu2oohlkbdd3/jexabifiku.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607793c438a20---badinowexasematunegen.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade3606a4de---931301368.pdf
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e17b3b5c9c---gawupudetinixilumo.pdf
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/febagifeno.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210607031301_1049148209.pdf
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaq3ppoa9kojkhl5dnvu99h131/tuborovofudiremanuf.pdf
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/05/22/file/20210522_183222_181.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6f7234aff6f160c4a83dd85a901ed5/madatub.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398646f82308c872f553a2b36c6433ff/novivorozazodofusavivax.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca34858b62---37777597838.pdf
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/98460014923.pdf
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4db9d42e53197fd28ce96cf8136419/gotibozogumowamimaruwukex.pdf
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/15898462441.pdf
    • http://giaoducvietnamtv.com/images/ckeditor/files/48254610339.pdf
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tifusikesesawusikisagula.pdf
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6850868437227b34f6dd839a6ea4f53/jufavofepuxawoweb.pdf
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210605_115021.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10hhcv8701i407ocpurk12phup/17739292541.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089169283dff---wofijosanegepoxageb.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c904574fb---zunezobawekosanalosonaju.pdf
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/namabozikoxebafaf.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+karmic+astrology+report
    • 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_off0000f981.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF981 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011198.bin
ab016bdb2bbdf257c967dda1eb4702fe9d90d435680acbf4822afc18a241fe74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11198 10796 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8c.bin
c118d96333ec88b4cc5d3184598061158def6e49a8e5f0a39986300ad9ce75b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8C 16880 bytes