Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45e2ce11de9959db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0259a71c143d8d36cb412a63f77136d0 SHA-1: df2ad201503c1965f0a1699d5d7f9b64dca85158 SHA-256: 45e2ce11de9959dbc1742c40b3fddbe156f73387840407964976c619ccadc365
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oxidation+state+of+water PDF link annotation
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/18648621776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/43731568196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59a77ddbc5---birulagepujisokurijesuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8179e54f9c3a896bcfdbf312c25fcdd2/60273528648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13bac39348---72117566268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49b4195b38---7225626866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/66352524437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32b4e02a7e---55478931936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46550a05c3---66120998965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3691f1ab22bbf5487c96990021a2ab9e/wuxujuzazazedegivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc6ffa465a---55987469410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608680b346683---ravedufiwagegagoxamovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084453b0b115---14024628434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/64992264100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingyuvasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/luwarulemofixarebofiguti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dqta07n457npj89vr6p9u3nt2/lopexibapamosenolebofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0db0c4d96---vosovisefujafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d792ebbface9abbd25f337d14ea2b8c5/tedepovapabezavomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/40279279676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/rasulazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0ee819413---93025419643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f458248853dcf64a41b99e0b48f43b/18674607578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d330a0fbc4---23909248419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/62945856293.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_off00010d68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D68 10512 bytes
SHA-256: c003a0c0a7961f2483a21c21957627bdc4a0f3293209512aff4d98c49523584e
font_01_sfnt_off0001258f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258F 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 4af095e453cdffd73f628ed4ebac86da5b222bf8b976fb297bb0913f370f1cf7
font_02_sfnt_off0001527c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1527C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1