Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45e6646514152f48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 15:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 707fa89f8a36920d8b75991a51caaec6 SHA-1: 36840aa2c845ba23d1919c911c02719d4c9fe166 SHA-256: 45e6646514152f48322ee17471c95211a7855e7c5062344c539a964ba4403f49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, including those hosted on disposable domains and WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating an attempt to leverage SEO for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://acril.ru/ufiles/files/19861082243.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/vawetilinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/zuzuwulavoxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lechioutdoor.com/userfiles/file/paratuzaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/7955135897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprinter-lab.ru/content/File/9839013552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/kigedumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fee69d3b7---51573934471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386b6098451---353687327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb7hgae413mc02b1iqsn0vdr64/66314065384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishngrill.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/kerefosoxategafimajame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/18690090645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24450583737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krishikhabar.net/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jesefewemujituxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongciao.com/uploads/files/202109060815541628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-motorcycle.tw/upload/emotorcycle/files/jirimonoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locke-3c.tw/uploads/files/202109071931054492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fanedodepupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxline.eu/userfiles/file/memodimamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctcinsulator.com/uploads/file/91903139774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/268200337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d24c6cafe6---7622030667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/nowivapabuzomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hide+app+name+in+android+studioPDF 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_off0000dedd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDD 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 90ab575bcb58a2bd70c0ddfa4f9caf2c3730f56c8006ac3c7365cf8c3288818d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 19972 bytes
SHA-256: d78b2753486c6c0b6190330c1f69b2fd77d91efc441031dd7f69a39b15e2fb9e
font_02_sfnt_off00012b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1