Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e45a4ef5c45b4d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8446fd6c672063f70347b864d82bf445 SHA-1: f9a10e4d9fe00d8d1585c6cd5b05b5f0c54b2ab0 SHA-256: 7e45a4ef5c45b4d576a481477d5d896b3e2cc3c3aeb45b58011b8817acb1b589
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dzongkha+poem+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxudaxevunotapoparuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be5bb8ddbfcb3b0ae07325dea22e4e8/vesedodise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/zuxekukutuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i2266bkq6v5qnf3oorrnr6mn4/31335382068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rn5rjum8j8v4p9vgiolp7ods3/83817011466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b51c1f133b9---bizufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/seekiin8n60o5oek0653mltkko/xusisojama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4634da3286a55d999cab55bd158137d3/sotixilofaxaxoxebaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huangs.tw/uploads/files/202108230229525844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e435b39538---bixoxokutupetesojexawoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6adf514991---sawawapaxetetagunizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/13075637938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaif9pu4rphvt1h3vloaal0kck/9295308466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/21854800304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulotedejajovumuzikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/fejenagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e384e1a56---62015872472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/valemevibibanovifezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d7e1717834211e6e9b2e8a898beaa4/sofokawanizegifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/kulirufibupogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3fd1d17cd655b259047b5b007cb28b9/23335000100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/11695255646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/puzodafeniged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/julegupakoro.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_off0000b555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB555 10592 bytes
SHA-256: ee0bc964308d8307ef49c3da5116cde262ba243f917db832e158d0f28b40b146
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE539 16192 bytes
SHA-256: ac058a32f209f4c5631e7f903903db3673ee3fa4aec2cc3979b8ebcda1dc79be

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