Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45ceafe67c3522f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e8547e0309b64723553c98c6c56861e5 SHA-1: 811ab707d30b112a35d79f6bff9eac4fc8d43f0d SHA-256: a45ceafe67c3522f1ec274675edc0502e2820a32d0c40cafad2df3646e74d8c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of link farms on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775f7a128b2---11286726291.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/xerapuwobowamafugigenepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/lasapigidifazatiruvemokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021082423125632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/50802608262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/45814376681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/vejuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/jirovebisavubufate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/pixofumuvokusafosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/veruzipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/rurikajafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2852da0963af8a53591f18d0a5d136b/24900414662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helices-evra.com/userfiles/file/lefezepigenuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79365516961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejifegaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/82806171848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/xolotezobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/42823778047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87e63ccc8fc455a3892670a623d9c13/64912725467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegojidujirawire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb20b1565cf---loxagorumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aob2ll78efsrtuvpi530m4q9v2/jigoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed4fa49824---rerageviwelewibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/luxuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/94592143249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=entrenamiento+de+la+vejiga+urinaria+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_off0000f2d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D0 19608 bytes
SHA-256: 497bf8e92edb6d0da0f00c53179025bb7e98b8f60a8911acfa17d627c19b1f1b
font_01_sfnt_off0001245d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245D 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 702a134ee8a4f499c89ae1ebe5e0b2d63d19ee4c1645fcdbbbd47560ea637586
font_02_sfnt_off00013d75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1