Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 845d297314ebc53e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 02:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 93471ae10a12880087c10eb0c37409a8 SHA-1: abac9990657408f76ed5bdd7037daec604232adf SHA-256: 845d297314ebc53efcdc89c3ca77b8e8c72e7b18105cf26c481507c15b9eea8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users, possibly to phishing sites or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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 http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/28804154058.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27150bbb324e29685453fbac1d32a4cb/88312733238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087923d5057b---kijegosokuniwopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/76371513211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6a8f8bf71c307884d39252121d2303/2070040405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/62920407155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/77263787833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bibiwurujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40011132620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3b2f8d016c---45076376356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/fubejutomuvirugepumilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3bca6458f0---58701023322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c5c9c9794---nugigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/7637570575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011f0a95d297084585b24f1d4bc364a0/rabawogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65065fe895acf84d6c53f9ea8d589df9/birezagudetasogisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/18047771192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsb5jdi5rtguv65kqgmr71r57e/melaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082425ccd1bd---7088550256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/jabubojipiroguputimeramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/xubenemafitimisaviweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/kawuvari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7efd801fb7---23490807537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fcfa42b19---84083751462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe50854fd225ec259ac2058cebae842a/jomomuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/86763559780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=biology+for+engineers+book+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F38 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 641e5c3cc613e183c82c36363500697394eaf4e85dfbc9f1065b9e323533aae1
font_01_sfnt_off000127d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D0 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 8e3db5d7bff90033def7213e5fabf7e730932b87cd6fac4c20fa22513e127a5c
font_02_sfnt_off000157d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1