Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45ffc69b72440b49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: ee7e658c69da69fc9bba003f9b1f51d3 SHA-1: 7b2d194ff119876a7ca49cce2e4947208f036cb6 SHA-256: 45ffc69b72440b49391873cdf82902ac3db81abed650ae1f88ad98098a5b85b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. An embedded JavaScript stream was also detected, suggesting potential malicious scripting capabilities. The combination of these factors indicates a phishing or redirection attempt, likely to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70939256233.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/91935851969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/likedojorevelirirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982b812167422166cd536867ddd7e933/xiwazipedivositonufujeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/57929117391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75112454854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd25e2470bb---18748044261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gameadvisers.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tabuzanaripuwemitajuzumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/nanosoxerixivabupezawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/zivaforigibinuzozenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a133a67e51c---89766678317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10043ee128bebab57c2b21922c88aae5/noxenide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/pujedalakebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///23773642878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0831ecebb6e7b9760247a459e5ccc88e/denoronifexunawimowinuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161148fb3ce762---fewakakovuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/vakezefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1292694a8ba3e7d74a8cc812ec4139d3/22147812491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarenta.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_9E6E963412AEA7C3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/59394151153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/gisalegirufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/64930410871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflbdq.com/uploads/file/021553356443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3e8077e23---74452581864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/43293365454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/78743249422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=objective+test+vs+subjective+test+pdfPDF 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_off0000db8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 183976aaaebe42eefd22d70416a0628e66c52a6c36d3a849c32fd8cfe1a0e242
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9E 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 898a0a42f61ecc799265b6fa23f8fbca728d72348785728de17267b0d78484b2