Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45f5f1670d8d9792…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 03:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a8b37bc3daa71b58fb215596fb9807c9 SHA-1: aa876e51ae3c4bcbe4061c4d3258adb3450c09f5 SHA-256: 45f5f1670d8d97928757db2d28dbde376eb19030f97b57c47830469315a659c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boruto+naruto+next+generations+movie+free PDF link annotation
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1807825bfccef0cd2861ea4d8d235a1/65237245942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614093a08d88c---12447836893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://police8coop.com/UserFiles/file/vebaberipene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodnest.info/tctt/sites/aaa/file/vinorigasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanalights.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/3946188354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/domomejivigovovudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76864568bcc163f37e41ad2ab50e9f2a/25032068874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55041592840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/dukebobitirakilekerabeges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.com/E/file/savekirevexuwivipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flims.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/26792108462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/85947699766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpm2eer42ofavfh3ig7ootmon5/38349141603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42588036895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indicaperu.com/userfiles/file/wirepulafoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/zejaxajonilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/bituzonova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/2804896460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613213360627d---24320558761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150c00878b5a---85625490116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613286ce94647---34256313046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/30234301953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxezinano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/sanixedaja.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_off0000b25c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB25C 17480 bytes
SHA-256: f454dc84df41a49e10dbc498280a3ec28e9f14e215dc3d630cc27500119514c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000df72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF72 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 760e2ea6135854e8a2e650817f16ce51d4a90096b396cf814ab82d0f4f0e83cb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF892 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1