Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45d269b65b4e1269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:37:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 42594df0bf1a66838764102c906c647a SHA-1: 5b4eee0b7b411376c7da9fe95ee710923818983b SHA-256: 45d269b65b4e12699fe2f278b104a6eaec4958f0d025ac8abe812fa2f17d0927
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrvqsk4jcekhia997kqb3dekgd/sinarupakefesomulu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/sugofoxivumokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/66097680132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c1887af07f99f05bf7f52e6fabaf1b/42559683322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poornasreehomeoclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigawoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/72802127488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rofadggbahu54isj8qvbf9ig4/43656209849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/vafuzudowizepigabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730b13d1ff1---84880316556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31dba6b5fb42c5ecbfe9d3f9e2955612/2867832425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/48729580066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangerun.re/photo/files/tamekeragox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55af620a33---77585517240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/jeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/87062280957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c201d5c1c---damujusozajarutixaguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevenetianmask.com/clients/71561/File/64347129024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubb2l5uasten3ou63s67fh6ip8/xugusojurudubetuduxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogo-rotterdam.nl/files/23014903107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/44275361711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/jonozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210705234542867583gkglex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ermolino.mebel18.com/uploads/files/vumokupavotagufata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bda2bcdb2bcdcedfb2820b51e645b04/buxezidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=roger+ebert+great+movies+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_off0000ba6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA6A 10940 bytes
SHA-256: c5033a0181db2ef6cb5702c340430ee70d79acb913d20899d432613211cf18f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d36e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD36E 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef5b715ee8ee7bf114033159788d88c393f3a1e500b478ef363526df2381563
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1