Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c46b9c229fcf7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:54:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 48e2f07edac82837ecb4d9915e60ab9e SHA-1: 7c2f1cdbc0243ce274cadd7aa0e7b34031962c2d SHA-256: 45c46b9c229fcf7b71d58d7fcd111c8674c6ba9d80c0f64151c4346148bce6fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to directing users to malicious content or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/49271907805.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6492a2f3a8e40853c752e43befe295ef/36483664389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8879370c80b9c3ca52cfbd3403b89ac5/sovito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///12154674930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xalusenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangguanhardware.com/userfiles/file/tuxawaxogujamosawamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719abe8e907---kunavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/kiginamezozepufopamive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/29020448303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acadd7dda8a6dd49caccc9960ea5983d/56370132167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/18523162354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/ximewuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b70106c89---52862959973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/42895814488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.net/scauserfiles/files/vipuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kegjm05jggqsgr6pcb0dmlefd1/31780591681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbad80ccf4---wemewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm7ur7egcithbig4up612d2i5b/kuramowivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/10058359612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521t058srrd703g85ik3tdqcb1/mediwumafopebipetunupode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81846655488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87f559a8b524078e73a89ff91edf23d/lorufawibuwomupazedirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinapufedowofolilutupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/suxuzazusimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ts+constable+syllabus+2018+pdfPDF 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_off0000b9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F3 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 36f4b32b1d3ae558be84c9c998f9d70dc803b45a62b2a9b3768da41556f0db11
font_01_sfnt_off0000d461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD461 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC73 14916 bytes
SHA-256: 879d8894d9a851a4bf1ca7f16f3c1c19855c532a27d5da175267bb75d3b04195