Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45e26db6cb3533f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c0853c8ef9c664668eada08c9dd1a36f SHA-1: 959af5c901d02c068334df7edefef2a7d29d6f14 SHA-256: 45e26db6cb3533f22eb103835829b55b936dc2ddf576748510a3d3cebb781987
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, where the document serves as a lure to external malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://104408017.linker.tw/files/45961298493.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/godagisoranaluwogepuxete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/49385337183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b84bdbbec---57444781787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d7a71a510---10657524034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db9c241bf5239d6de75eaf37dc11fd0d/7029601029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/mimudizoditibegopelupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/tumirafijazisidinegegusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/99408378813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/678565388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74d58693ab---judisomexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217a05d833---73060492298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3dccdd9eb57310b0200ee7bb6ff7098/porasejetobebapidira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/80876568835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/97408321480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/88679971832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/nerabifojigojevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegrelli.it/userfiles/files/likus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/gisawalufibinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6e8e72a36---rixubesuwede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810d711901920e11f1babec04d672b30/92644883803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/47372701998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/40167237700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/sinagugavumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085070a03132---gogizosixafunoputo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gender+and+agriculture+in+africa+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_off0000df83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF83 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 4504a58523bc9021bd2221f395409ddbd169ca2e6b369c5792ab7c395e6db8d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C7 17172 bytes
SHA-256: f0c38b80b924205764c035580a6cbced39ca60e10eea32c736a843efe0a94fd2
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1