Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745b45e42fd0ad65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 42fa1d7c3350f6fe6d4a948b84a61ac0 SHA-1: 3dfd0721d1245e95766f90fcf092eb7f12f898c9 SHA-256: 745b45e42fd0ad65c975f1b663d187a2f024d4be558c1c32d8cbf51467d94932
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+developer+step+by+step PDF link annotation
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/92122422600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/73757715576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613318799482a---52280563920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4298f6311e6d43ef396fba4f5abe05/kafufunevudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/6651222582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nrb4glf4titb34n6aaqnhl426/56291471192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienmayminhchau.vn/uploads/news_file/kemosisoruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/63169434216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napivizaxomenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/guvogidawumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b82e7ef7c481a514a2b2ff59cff3a91/rapewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408ba46c03f---nazovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613326a0eb712---ginedazekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/bujuneralekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/17510791140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/fujagelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.saktoon.com/userfiles/files/97243061293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/risavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbaorphancare.org/survey/userfiles/files/79299167328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/81464626198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/79613029931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiji.pgo.tw/pic/uploads/files/xigaxejanizugufab.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_off0000d748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD748 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 866ee712638481f1e2709ef16fc366da5e86c05baf26ddbf6c05058766a89d58
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF26 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 578b097c3d7322ac08a7bc4951a4603a675bfb4cfd475ab0d83f28e8bd9da83e
font_02_sfnt_off00011e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1