Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 862d045e46e2216f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 23:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e5e9eb85659a7c60ba7f8c5078d800c2 SHA-1: 18308df1febc1b6a50b1c9a522fff30b604c4e76 SHA-256: 862d045e46e2216f038c8bc3fe9601a125956c75879bba5b65b64270b963386f
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 file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to distribute phishing content or further malware stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69165154836.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b58006b4aba31f4617106e4cc0b18ca3/11299619266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwaysindia.com/uploads/43154536103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/6170289007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43591b0eda3e3ca3f03e4425652c5b48/91749736568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ffd471d4876b8258f96e20ad54eda4/mudujedorevamomelixigegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dhu4gmi9m4ctlsaf5h372gune/92653868782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a88e078c00a809d8a35fb83e8e5fed/10616587943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/41749320378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84641784082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dce9b9e92e1d5a3b12edf26a3e4e405/rupilukoberavalutezudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/bomube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811d2a23398---38124695316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d1cf623059bbc5d77aa549ab4e65370/30310493463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d444ec186c---xobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/barofebedilazunexaxakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5ee3723d4cc993621864f474d16522c/41223746835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/73467205015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/52307937464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/27942214158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbccad4785---51436468600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/kopekufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848c63d6224---65675409912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791d0367980---14769998435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+leadership+challenge+6th+editionPDF 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_off0000e70b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70B 10924 bytes
SHA-256: a7c238d3fcef4c106e0d10600e41502164651a8a149095b9b0e71a7dd5a29a87
font_01_sfnt_off00010011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10011 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 80f3a3a61ad8ce9e6957fe044c565b002d1ad853b603a7fd5c329fc9f3d54bd5
font_02_sfnt_off00012ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1