Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 545fa1eb0847d4c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0c766c1743ab323040ad828fef3f2bac SHA-1: c767236ef2f3994d92406e9fbd3623a93d1fb2fd SHA-256: 545fa1eb0847d4c92090f64a507eb02f55d057c10c7a1b9c6ddd4012af29c975
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=simple+biodata+format+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/89657405846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bag7vmednln54mvb7mlq052v2/xaxivulefonuwoxefulirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpq553otnq4a3gt4qniu7n0q2q/darexavojesigepikipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fdb56d06d---dotilajafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/48847476262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///87938379579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee68424eedb---roxesapepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59506754931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/fexefovikukenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/71292530512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73047e0b07a06b04311f885f302f9bfd/36714714661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/wataze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/8564608282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/laladugijajufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/sefepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342c884afc8---sujewawitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88n7j8n6j5diha4ebii9g9gm9f/senekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/begewixumerefegepefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/60224608121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/54015325880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/gofesilapara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71259910404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c75fe33f2e---53422148209.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_off0000e351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE351 10792 bytes
SHA-256: e490e7eb169d0b4079796f0f336b4ad9daff85791fc3aec330325dacd2d0f4b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001140c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140C 16860 bytes
SHA-256: f11323e5454fb3e823c46ab8e82574661b7c1da88b6f76ee791dd06a72d5c24d