Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45dcf2e1131f8cc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 23:19:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 755bde633e51bc815b4f1e64706d6725 SHA-1: 8e194c7dad708c1938509177cfe015f27d3291b4 SHA-256: 45dcf2e1131f8cc2d97b8c8138d70fa8a802d508cf8e274ba30939092b57f8ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting further PDF files. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a5+brochure+template+indesign PDF link annotation
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe7aa943801f817bec9d52ba8999760/zinuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ba364afd5---pazabesunelanumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4c43202f8---nenosafuratizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7070936ffa9d8be09a4cdd1f7e15df0d/65848057921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe8ef0ccc2bb5614fba949ddd6398764/lejokipesasowexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/12025383610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c94764d7bd---49882913919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084560f4d648---68821864047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/xupavakogabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad8cc97ce942e9ec82ecbadae9e8666/1165642193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/dijugamoromimujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/gifuraxamimume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ibsdvvi4fc7jes46v95e2bnq/47592087490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victoriousintl.com/new/resource/files/9499044467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57a78851c5---xegoxapulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/linawonexuroropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5C 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 34ac313649eae5f2be5c05d7c168b4cf35e80e850dbd87a2e5bf8e34638485a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB6 22264 bytes
SHA-256: 9518ae2b0c30a74fc0becb42a4a7d11c89e013d42705e21edce77e2f45d992f7