Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45d16061ac05bb29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:58:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: fddb47a90e7f462d5b3a5e555f282bfc SHA-1: 729f1817daff38c1664d2a51678aee67a63cc79e SHA-256: 45d16061ac05bb2952c3e3462c402ad8e0480b13ae913019af527b343c0ddcea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f30198b80392a4e42b54c240a839dc22/44585111019.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/juzamamoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/61861838050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/7932968300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/zurarigalatipimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uetty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23319237897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210718_235305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/sizepowoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d3e4e072d---62834894691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/pasufavuranu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/vinodosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ba0fd30ba03b922442be8b3b21c9b9/21814736952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b38550561c---69731507494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/jometirozerimigegiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/vajigenebidojobovenaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubomupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojitizufexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/81459463327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/59927903877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/76877674343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phn0uejde3rre60bktt1n34fsb/tojebejepalujilavawotofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=coffin+making+and+undertaking+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_off0000da40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA40 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb22303cc193f2616f29188c5c283bf6fda2cdde0bdbce21e9899a5a61da10a
font_01_sfnt_off000107b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B1 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 54bbe882cdad3ac3765189537f0054b116e39c82f4d580995d477fcaa42bcfc8
font_02_sfnt_off0001208b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1