Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45de239f738dc559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 23:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 72f2b26c3c0a47f56b0f3fc6850f20fd SHA-1: d71ce379736e2c986a1bbef839a28c7629f94af7 SHA-256: 45de239f738dc559de695319c84f2642a5797fcbde05e31e412e0a3f5c517a0c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, likely intended to serve a second-stage payload. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+city+mod+apk+unlimited+everything+latest+version PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44063757190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/kezubux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/nesusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/naxala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/wemevesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/18381996160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9fd9b1f2a---zenuwuposixilavotose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2d76190a5---gidujugasuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bp9nps33uugkafov1sv880gk78/favoxugexotuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607e6c0e82d3f---91086827361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3apraiecajgqgt3ftan2b1379/livoritoriredigiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb3pdreh8tdujcggpv4h1plg6v/fiwuxusuwonunuviwawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/fopokurisewabegepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766c6746693---47187180792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdl9b068bar2lqfksh01luntcj/katamaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/31111731542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/tusawutijosijonexusokodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/23545192867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609662f51faf6---xemafawikerisoxedifeguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junatadopezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/jidabajurirevazinivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c9a945ff2---66645569686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23380f9c31be4aedacce8907a7fe5bca/73721072208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d34813f7d---37492277604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dtoskkvfei3l8butcm89kmbh5q/70514316819.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_off0000f9b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B1 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 58f9c2ed2681f513bed9a72847b745066660c0c01ab183fe0bf770c6b30f7c3a
font_01_sfnt_off000113fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FE 17296 bytes
SHA-256: c3a8bb721d3189c3cf2d6f776ca526368672068612840da08e386c5aa31195eb
font_02_sfnt_off0001412a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1