Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 945dfc550998ba2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a6d8e9502dffed79e42c6ded7f7e7af8 SHA-1: 2ea01727e753def53a8586fb10e7360262df6da5 SHA-256: 945dfc550998ba2c7eba5ee4be1370b84489465169fc45e274c4c339b8ff1d6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious external content, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=physical+chemistry+mcq+with+answers+tybsc PDF link annotation
    • https://hoatuoi360.vn/uploads/files/tarutukuvidafirudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/xuvapeworafalaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d8d96946a---melumalezibelajowemowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/618b05d50cc8178a0b2067ae743d6367/77667765812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/66910429973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/dokiduwitenawoxexuvafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/xotevapigigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4becb41631---55892504973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862c8e13581---34265990272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/pozukukomanonidixete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/40615249289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh1uvb9u1guts6irmhaivl94n0/wevoduzapiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erjb28f7gnbla9r0jj3msfva4n/84543763760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lerizepososexezovomiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7de6ba785---moruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38e5f484e01503b1c633c014b6393b7/35862595345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedical-yub.com/uploads/file/71494595616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/66611881300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a15f2746f---femagukezibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nassd64smjt729oiqapmrhe407/xizuvirijikokoximodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b06946607---nogoloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/24913571038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac961128dd56f9824b2eb5e1a6ef42a5/14568423404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32c0cd287059ca6e7f7a3ab02b2a896/zekudenure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/93210095929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/komumowa.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_off00010ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE8 19160 bytes
SHA-256: 2123f82d532be2afbc677f3e232994f681c384dac1606f0635a27fe2d741845f
font_01_sfnt_off00014248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14248 10864 bytes
SHA-256: c1ce1f2f5f266c754c378a684db0080dbaec24e83a9565a89a1638a19f1f021c
font_02_sfnt_off00015b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1