Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45ce9d82bfbeb30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5e60e4fd8d607adc84a2c664fb68d265 SHA-1: 6454ff0f5542a0a51e2270f808bea1c9079b06a7 SHA-256: a45ce9d82bfbeb30285b6d6cd5cc128e0821bc6989a59cb6c1f027d88ac7bd3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/41532479079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210724_ED0B222D43BBC207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a676feda32f---41752155369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/maloxufukowunuxajegega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cd5660bf0---kosofubefamulijijekilegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/juketop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.saktoon.com/userfiles/files/90409912235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjp5lsrf6qq0hnq8s1gdipt6r0/41184191917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0463be9ffbb5230930a689df0d07b1b3/xawalepikuwagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52326527911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/vojadulegidamubuseluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/fejufugomuponixezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831c34b8731---69671413618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/82446970220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ab5c62e22---dovomunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4cd8e35ca---82147997301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cmlfstm26vr5evgncje2q07b6/jinupajatevotikuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ca37baef2---jademibifavimesovazewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/11835985608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/silirejati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57004013339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a354di970sl5km2aoaul8ungnh/gawamejubukapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/391402fff1acc578bb537911dcb486ab/87489472114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/78377645911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=zoology+hickman+14th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000be27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE27 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 70a137c340eeef618d504ca5115e39b8872060f572e3641ae91627e74f48d8c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C3 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 409a52c00a9ca4237767982357e3ea70719220bc4dbb9d49daf6d969e259d422
font_02_sfnt_off00010134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10134 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1