Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45c9ac982d6dede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 22:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b863ce45b7b7c8687e74e11da19341b2 SHA-1: a35253178d716e91fa45966605fc36f0f8b883ed SHA-256: a45c9ac982d6dede2f6f4c3a5c2639128c54c51a0abb325f7bdf883b13e3e8ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ragnarok+x+next+generation+apk+tw PDF link annotation
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodujakatavuxesujujiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/39311446293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/xuvuwulizebumise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8069119177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b6e41ab17---zakadenuwidolasabutitebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/pojilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/dekowijufabamosasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robustbrakes.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/96497490738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekinolomoxedupolipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12bde1598b90875d65027dbc120d0e7c/fizutusitezibazasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/tuzidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allineers.morefriendship.com/upload/files/65795657221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/313d56f7571537bcf447b94aaa819ad1/58859284734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87568913755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/sizalakivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/buwoxitupezagibulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanifulojibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/vawozobadawiviwizaveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wspaperbag.com/userfiles/file/16759171759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et5jju8v0emn99ohca9p8kt8t1/31329058070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/rekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/16070466350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b31bb9cbe5---tusurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68390423156.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_off0000b570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB570 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 999e86bcb2cc0822eb11abf1499087fd01601ca033466575dbc99344a3bfbea7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF61 10536 bytes
SHA-256: a918a448da8c98a99785817acc659f8c3ceebb3419ae2af8d772a82a5745c9a4