Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b045df7b7c020289…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 960edafb8da5ba6a56bf2553989ea5a7 SHA-1: ff6ba10a51e1e21f7f0e8d270516263833bb6ee7 SHA-256: b045df7b7c020289ef20f00269a0966dad6756c857110cb462ddc5ad5366fbc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+gmail+all+inboxes+default PDF link annotation
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/30726374733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94567318061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyitech.com/uploadfile/wapoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o643o3s5cvdfdig6qb7bqc70bh/33471092899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf485bf3a7qjd7354els2la864/kazaladeregeritedonavadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb41b50440---43285164088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905053433275018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/10868330226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5877a4fe4d95fb36549aec99ca534d81/81000174945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lovebliss.tw/UserFiles/files/tilaxirasevewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotopanudepofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97356587186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/solaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d60a8d3fa1---87014520757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/40118422588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reeder.ee/files/filemanager/nidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2aa11d1c1---noxufugobuwulozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/16573445675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icbiz.ru/userfiles/file/tinomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/77251779940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwuxajapa.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_off0000d849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD849 18268 bytes
SHA-256: b9e6f8a638c99392db3316bd78239c9dfc1a9aff5a75192dfbfa1ab5b46d018b
font_01_sfnt_off00010805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10805 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 1988d94a7c84b052beebe60be716f0c878d51fc6b76665a9c8e975f30866fe65
font_02_sfnt_off00012178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12178 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1