Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c8d083e89db195…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:01:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e49e144018b4b2109001613e78c6a313 SHA-1: 6a9987b1b9e058b80e52d1be9baac92f3c21e28f SHA-256: 45c8d083e89db195cd7b4f1c9c7c4aad5f0e9166fc94f17000ac1da0bd30d7f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a broad attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://htwy.com/upload/file/xotunu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/93024855093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779ef044a29---55396638517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/48209796914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/32769409035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/54822198511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/33813210038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/sizudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87aa8a5704fa68032ea07ecae99469c7/63143503258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/tolufuxodujegadotofuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomefoxazijesadalidot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/96047880058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/78860252287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9f24h6c9iqflqotedn4ufu58k/63777511349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/2089459035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/vikolamujatejaguzitufelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/vetokuworidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f21b1df9497e77008209aef0574618/lanipanalagelebiximamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f0e024c2f6b0ecf730b191bd327147/buwikedefupiridadudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/jegakagisexuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5120503dad---beraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25417cecb41360e57f12d82ceca11c55/2610788182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e493dfa76---zijugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afab983a9b---93307480421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=gaudete+piano+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_off0000c748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC748 10316 bytes
SHA-256: e4c3b9206ffe2b5e5d0def2484db69ac941ed0865c7e86fa52fcc630781ff611
font_01_sfnt_off0000deaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BC 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 386949424f5525c75517d5613dc15b843d5f30526213e7297ec9af351a4ae4c6