Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45f3a7e8b866afa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:26:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 87e2525cdcc0aa78a804ec2b0501c60e SHA-1: 00d1c845a70abb5245a8e6a3417c593feacf3ec2 SHA-256: 45f3a7e8b866afa90970f57f3cbb45cb33441c5786bfc24959431dfeccd0b549
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic indicate an attempt to exploit users via malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/26126920135.pdf
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kudironagelusixagokaragor.pdf
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4oqhhp5np0ch1lqoom357rmh0/77301790987.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2bf07ba86---vofiwijaxitukojatef.pdf
    • http://tdjl.com/uploadfile/file///2021090104334358.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6ed09g4o9jke37e43a32pqhh7/likegixer.pdf
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/ludoxupafofo.pdf
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/laraxewepewelibopatad.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096332a5cadb---72426976075.pdf
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/guzisaguzipuneruxosati.pdf
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/87729018694.pdf
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/polafifonanosiwoko.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071df4280e4e---rigiruratimupoxodubo.pdf
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/tixataxe.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/nelenazomasu.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kqtv21cs5devbpfrfmi5q43c3/47963292955.pdf
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f10d9bf0f0085e1b11e43c36de7e9e6/38855372575.pdf
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/nuzepekukamiweranosuwe.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8094784f5af7ff778f35e002d4533c/28169292993.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70311797474.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=bell+hooks+all+about+love+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2b8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000facf.bin
4cc385f5fb8c8d234d1a6dde2346d513117f32bc3ac4d02c3e33de7c6b41e977
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACF 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001138a.bin
6c2056c40261f5dc5b410e1a89c2e7dd2f207e41dc4b86063bc3dae6482cfab8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138A 18608 bytes