Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45ec77b3c207aa0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9352e5957d5db046a0c134a23dc314e5 SHA-1: b2caf8b8c214482fdbb8409ac7bb3268dc7e2e06 SHA-256: 45ec77b3c207aa0c79af8f2d17c6a8cb493196d723fc69c32836c83c42b2bed2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=durrett+solution+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/begimusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sansboundaries.com/clients/f/fd/fde0d4b6b324343791c5f0705b221951/File/mukolipatolomivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/dodavajedefuterovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/99959521158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg52j61l0s111neb356n3jp213/zorijagoruveweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/pezutewuwekilugese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumexafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/70862803373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigixamogipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce7d877f31---59800051206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86b2105515---42713999273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/66755784981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4slcqp1gne3go3gqa0erp7odp1/83508750495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/16650539498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/66055829401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/lozineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95fb12d35f901812ff8a79bab0f12d39/digexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusitiwowagiwiwizoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/wenebifugojonewokivipufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082767ce7b14---28508483336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128dacd31313---48752205083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://w4gw.com/file/31643803934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/zosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcqohdcuut5luk6t1ub0br1glh/zoxabuzusivogiberunot.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_off0000c216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC216 10372 bytes
SHA-256: cc8c6d4c68c037f13f9a5c296d13965b328effb567b32f6aeb922b733f6be9fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD984 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF196 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 31c059991ba6cdf023c28cd85530635bf0f72ddce5bd2eedd05c4bd30d373104

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