Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45d2fef3f7834724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

143.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e2bea69598c91ecffb4a3dc2692056f7 SHA-1: 9e69d56d6b8d1e931a53f671d33a3863c6801edf SHA-256: 45d2fef3f78347244e1f815a069b17a0d8ec367df18c8eacf2c2bdd3e5f3f9f6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these compromised hosts. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac123d62f1---70457392071.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a77c01f19---73697097336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada810722f3---65854092388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8c11dd54b---553687874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://free-spirit-city.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/34874104269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ityab.com/cache/fck_files/file/jabuxumezuxerorer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlea9j9kjkfqv0a90hgvas7td0/33950905496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56bc66e060---pebamixaxupasujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0a3b670aa9012edfbb415a1e88d9ce/26376881338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/nojunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/kagonivesonadunerin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/zaxibezukiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97ho85kldfvsnqp7hm2a2u072a/dokidizeriziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inglewoodreunion.com/clients/68690/File/53716463418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360ec7d6be1---bobarajiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d73c993be170c5e2dbf9128533716e/jevisozasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/80938516141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/74526399827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovodufujuvaretojodivujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2780f330ee---pozogesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/215911343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073209f18298---kugidenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/92214313457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202108060707545905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127545b6cf95---13141614304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hearing+loss+definition+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_off0001cafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CAFC 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 45333d0ae59bd1ae5ec5482ce432ff881c2a055d41c677102eef067e07e5bc20
font_01_sfnt_off0001e33b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E33B 20340 bytes
SHA-256: e91682984eb08915ea6f08f08f1e352984f0eac3ca191d99fbce8e9a83e77220
font_02_sfnt_off0002188a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2188A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1