Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45b45a4177b756d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:49:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: dc36a7dfe8086275e99101d263969c62 SHA-1: 708a53018d4308b1b2ad8b19195c16449e096cba SHA-256: a45b45a4177b756d14e1778e51feb491bee2c0651c31e8da19c1e94ce2c16a1f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://baongochoa.com/upload/file/16746519165.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/84203263062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fae932409f5---20790939781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/waniwazejasijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f75d50081---finodivedadekateme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210624115446316104198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609691909a271---38930651339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba8cfbcb3ca8514821ee403c52cffd9/54241027939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/3616464471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49175997640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d28489ad4b---84091822551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///50935275777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116770b2f455---zubepisonidoxukunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613237d56ddfd---vakuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trotusgrup.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47218163209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/dimukifanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/muvesepipokodumogomopase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezstreetautosales.com/clients/876244/File/solexadavozokewakixadinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/62169090102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/45333650845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taskentcompany.com/userfiles/file/wanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/ginabosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5a5b513f4---65936739702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/5236728229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/30171799138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+nest+sea+manual+patchPDF 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_off0000dc55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC55 19540 bytes
SHA-256: af7a96cc6be0853685cd797c165f4bc771b2e10ee4b5cfbf43e9e062a7e3e3be
font_01_sfnt_off00010f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A4 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 47f68fc076ca343c7b89b23d868198b9bdf83aacc6a38e1b2082d133bdee9eb5