Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 545b818f9bfdbcf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e65e2cde0c67b6f73e36f4b83a130b23 SHA-1: 3b58e72cec058f92aca84d5f7eff4545af0460fb SHA-256: 545b818f9bfdbcf400fdf1fe647acd592a969e6ba74a7ad790e3a091350d0109
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm PDF. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains external URIs and links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=short+history+of+france+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7f4774b82---98585835107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/82011278336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6679c277---28809548265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/9750302304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zirefudozeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/luvatekanagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/11745371905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/78626672231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/34423107164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/gokimivivubosete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/wosejosisozivijoduwadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/geviveloroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/bitevafedolidukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/wavoxenowobovulafewokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/79930909945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/36528853260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9752a2a3b0bd383fdc806a1d5aed198a/kiwakajesivodefomaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/fexakomekibavezifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/jagigusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a16fd5e280ec7558a7a83b5f135899b7/8013538341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/minor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/tizutonabuforirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/98695381740.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_off0000e1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DF 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 3b1f1e288553b675644ef6104a271dfe22efba03fd623eeafb0c5ddfec975a2f
font_02_sfnt_off0001283a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283A 10860 bytes
SHA-256: ce24296ec5e4ffcfad1bb10856ead35401c98b34649f623ce4ed18a74066fd94