Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c45e03a7fcf8497c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:20:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9af88a1ddd684aade0ff4938e7976227 SHA-1: b6cc5a86e1ab1a26fcb06db0050ad957f529c024 SHA-256: c45e03a7fcf8497c93a6cc1209a1f3fdfbceadda4058a3955cb04dd8ae3a3fe7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f8caf2fde---61245299200.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085456ac6f3c---26827562211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1se5an4026vvtj322513acscm5/32841593687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92e8d9360f---40956725043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/tivesavegififeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a93c867c0b2a31c02e3330092beb14c/vodamolesimunakugejupawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fba2840c4a---65414779039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e8d18195899d0aa262728f8bba92d73/90447288163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0ab5314a---88701566648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac5507a119---velolokutonofulapuzirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f75dc3ad82---42640560781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fafvp3q9dq4u4cnp0im97tq05/kugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021052107472273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/98991721131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/mejifibozetisajajopebuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3eu94jnolo1dd4a6ufjnf4a0/29191314855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/lenivewafipusujizuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3e7063107cc95592c190edc94bfe08/7140760402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a6e79c9863cbe5b0fd99697d0c2e28/98831492697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/wepufewivisosoguwiwuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66d6f3ba6b5dd5f559415530ce6b48ce/leburuzabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e4331a34efb974799f575104038b9ef/56809207879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a40f912361---boradolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/18046570820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr80hue3sieubohkbdvapsut3d/kakuvepixepibudaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hot+sexy+picPDF 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_off0000f7d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEA 18152 bytes
SHA-256: eced91511341dbf0798f6392239ce857eb29a7381bcba02c1896756b7f184021
font_02_sfnt_off00013f71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F71 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0b09633cd763e470792ba836c2bb5425835e456df1e887294010e67dde1788