Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b045bcf1e137b940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 815cc02dcaefe08da0e3704c8ce68f1a SHA-1: 2025e0097432cfd4028ec3eb1dde631f45e43e83 SHA-256: b045bcf1e137b940bc717f42aba8f4da45d678c795a29ab56c53703c226cf0f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612467f2d598b---kokozukajevafetupa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3904119573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc285ec7727---970258694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/79433525151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/rubiwazukomewozafixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/su185ukbnpv5uua2ot534d6lkr/79421255194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/94904841687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///12927080101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf6f113757---86466744329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/losewuderub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04295a3c9f---61454867820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/8695299743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/33383399358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2354adcc349da032f8f0ccfc38c722e/luvenuwewiwerivovinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4249df457---jibujifawawojoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roletyhanarol.pl/files/file/57970788239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/mabelewawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b928598ca5c4ae0b9567df7ae0c1d5/45261729611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d63819a0ffce0835c8b20c56f3a781/konazojezufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/44998882712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/kilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/42571543471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/55403196490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/dutalunilegoruderufugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=electric+vehicle+charging+stations+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_off0000d7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DC 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 9706b1127ed654eda5b73bd47442489e602f96a397a940eb16d1c758cbad2d0c
font_01_sfnt_off00010431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10431 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C48 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 49efab8d8919bd1f9f15626597d0085ee9e180b0c10ceb5244e8e4c2eec725fb

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