Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745d9917853cf868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-10-03 17:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 724db0ab2a3cf1e346745c1c8c06bf4d SHA-1: 7baf1dd3c291ad79337bec2b4a04236a1173f1bd SHA-256: 745d9917853cf8681dd95c0c25a8ae56e5e4f47f92ecd3dad08f0bd2c2c40ccb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. These links are likely intended to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+ostomy+is+always+permanent PDF link annotation
    • http://darslaska.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65836150314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_E52FC386FDF1C2CF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/moxorofotazovobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10633027861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142dbb3459a4---24129507156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/84294314021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/96254076105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/wuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/97860734792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/55423068395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/55920985839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe951f2a91---sunujunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-francuskiego.pl/userfiles/file/girex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/tazolovosilukofokizamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67349928006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gds903o943dq621v91oivr747o/63826034930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dofutizuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219182338491218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/63269748970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/lozabanilumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f05881b37cf963bb31707df15c9cd6a/92104305967.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_off0000c164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC164 20172 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8e9a663b0a4e1d8f7ce93ee876fee01d730a222e0bfe43dd67e28638bc73d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EE 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 4a957aca0c00e22dcf2a5156f22aa459cff98b82361575cc927f6e95076af01e
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1