Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac45be5300d96d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: eeb288e759b6c98a5b72512a4e062991 SHA-1: 8be0023404c71ec85cc6b9c37c7b6894d249410f SHA-256: ac45be5300d96d33982619331b2bfeffb3904fed6dde91f6fb8f2732e686a1dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f612e3e22e238fc4eea988d687f5d0d8/bakojixabidomi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elu10vtn5ckprkcjq7scetuck6/waxuwulaburudabuladetapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c9a5b169c---72268349599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa2dfc347388cddca5579ca2c7ba8cbf/89876148007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/levukekowatetejimegezuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/32103665156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobodukasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/41808998477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f16daf87a54---66679409997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddl33lu99m41ab1veg582uvllr/fajamubinutasakaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporopools.com/contents//files/nobomagebubuvotajebefaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/28071136000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e6a2d0676---38530605828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4248ac384375c1a9cf3e5a1bc7b63b4d/90480451699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/roxedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/66046407795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/bewijufaxedaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607580b25545e---12707467970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/72489817655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609832a6f21a6---sotelomibigesakoxumofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021070104031180554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/pirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/20921610008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/93165076698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamobekila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=female+reproductive+cycle+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_off00011f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F9B 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 1cbab203cf8f5e5c704c7ff17cf94dc603df572ded2702ccbe143f2475f9062f
font_01_sfnt_off0001385d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385D 17288 bytes
SHA-256: f06c62897e91acb548868a4f9d9451b15f7115cf6a5fcdb97a132d949d9c46ad
font_02_sfnt_off000164a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1