Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45d72d84fd1ca921…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:48:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 020e61d91cf69ddd581ca79200afb4b7 SHA-1: b86728c91c6999f067197861ec6755e252bb91f2 SHA-256: 45d72d84fd1ca92132aec2cf7f06a5b133c9792d1c701decb2c53271df41b26d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination by using many distinct hosts and UTM parameters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hypersalivation+early+pregnancy PDF link annotation
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/85647149641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/dolituwososuraloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miluvapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/taxazoridutufikelasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19b7115234---53018070807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/71510637968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b684f6fcc8c6c1d87568f1d7d2438679/94167516293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojeberasatitemepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/vogaraligurekulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca0c46943---vutuselures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/22346719000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/65850901859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa9947a1260---suxokadetaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd743b2bb1ab68c0c1ea5bcea61045ba/rijimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/lijukene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/60228780182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc56f527f67---totefonelulupibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/2011629991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a2e1d3841---93869567474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/fejasezotowevojalodipagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833c35a2e4f---17602067676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb8ad1124f---gaserufodevatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f27a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27A 16660 bytes
SHA-256: f904f1aef7f68156a764696d4fe224883018ee04a5cb4d3d596f4a4743ac8c27
font_02_sfnt_off00011d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D60 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 2cb188f677a62060f6da2004a15f8c3ae59b2449575710182bc5c8bc83dd2c28