Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c45917536fee1ac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 86f9253c9c057972036371f4478bdf63 SHA-1: 200da9a2ee8dbc2c7042f480fb0c3f5a742894ef SHA-256: c45917536fee1ac6c873a8441603cdacb7ff299fa440f918517eb3fa3f4b4142
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2322f2d199---20764615016.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04fa1e75a3cb3e1e0020b141971854b7/46365266750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/65902387106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/95979232094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sovmgt3vjc59mhuvmbspdt76b1/97136481186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/33772783426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/fiwijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc10a48be1583d6a0fdc529ad5d9e9cd/guzivegogaxagepagodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.com/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/rajawideviba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/16336058771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/nonawomixufuwamokosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609919672a37a---gepudeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6236466785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l02ap9l9pelf7k5bbr333jdn84/subuwidiritedazebowugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0889b6c0d1e314ee8af0c9280ba3b937/52739097611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0777bc038---nugosatujunekudufazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd37f0c93dc8c3bb5c431c3e39b2cc9a/jokivaralomunuzenaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/wolevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a301aae2652---17044122717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12849160649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/42356905283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/zorutebojugizobavokofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3785c18b677cb3e96a5467b2813f6f/11408258140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cadd0060a932f02f12e38d729206269e/21131457299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=data+mining+for+business+intelligence+wiley+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_off0000c037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC037 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD849 16220 bytes
SHA-256: aae858f36a51bd6b9d3b1fb4763e787efed5eeda1e554a43c2dc3165a1d4e98b
font_02_sfnt_off00010184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10184 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 23e5baa2ddac4011e63f7cd122b1c2f5f7ae94f5331993551610c84aea4235a7