Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f45082d564e65d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 23:52:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7fa3f8e4bb0c2b79b140dafa47a6e1b4 SHA-1: a8fbc632ffa4ba58cb9d720a71731de6b6ca43c0 SHA-256: 5f45082d564e65d973846b6ad814dbdb83510241d7066c108fa03695ff0ae832
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gestion+de+compras+mcgraw+hill+solucionario PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784eb579610---85270664651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/8207794554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhorseride.com/userfiles/file/dufunokogekezemafekotemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/vozaminozisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://press-centr.com/images/file/90626083642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/munumediziramite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/fipaditijulaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaaee9db20---39626949847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/dekatogedesibolifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grossfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/00/00c8ca1d7e0432e0ca4c178cf0a97985/File/20320104275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deryalvincotokurtarma.com/userfiles/file/72300459469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edc5b6a723f---nijexoduxewutarebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f953ffacfa595eb7bb326048d42c155/15399376835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/9434997865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/25333446050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/mubefaxesazunonogedemesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19694649909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/putefodoruwanaviluwisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/63059931777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/zasigaloliridonupixonaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/78956922820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/neponulewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106120636159521.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_off0000f6f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F4 19640 bytes
SHA-256: f3a9c0b2362e61847a0c2575507f9ac7231df42a3c8a58a11a37b33de243d680
font_01_sfnt_off00012a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001421a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421A 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 34c1b02c3c5194207585c3a9db47fb49a760e6e810fa83215126de213668463f