Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45918ff3fa88118…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:29:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: fa128f0734318d6bff46d92106844ebc SHA-1: cbbee106f1f5564e86a950135dac93c0887b9f6a SHA-256: a45918ff3fa881184698975402c16305414430aeb9687170f40990f1dc0bcfc2
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports its role as a distribution or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=line+lite+apk+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614621750036d---rininibabineli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeditepegumruk.com/userfiles/20955278745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/17867422790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/59259318399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/sosafabadegoroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubugedetozipoxifupojonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090712504021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/mukexekefabalunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc9d95928---35293495966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/toronoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/15349835534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/81224596380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp/files/kogilogukomemovowupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/83825176314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woniwoxididojexivizerena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c70beb63a4---28324798636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/75673920946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/82163887399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/69332813214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxegakineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinumonomapejegexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harshahometutors.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/gabuzavemelunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/35872299064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/sadinobopugosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/36792630505.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_off0000da69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA69 10268 bytes
SHA-256: b1dbf5d69e2adda6db942229753f71c6b7f1bea197c0e5afa5bd663f1129a698
font_01_sfnt_off0000f186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF186 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed60b1291f2112c47b80669bda79bf82f5b6f1861bc176bfa3af9cda87259c0
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1