Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d45143b0ef0ec1cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8be95e582c4af4f53514cf63cf4e3876 SHA-1: d25d1b04982da4e62479522a3cc8923c911ff73f SHA-256: d45143b0ef0ec1cbaa39fd2e5a499099663f8832b0a8e82f378e59c979a6f975
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to external sites. Several of these sites are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058f79e254567df825a13af8b63a85e5/62590819994.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdf35a2eb69---85294998503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736b3fa0ca5---40619487336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2f8e3ca57e8f1f8f44c84f0aa0b1b3/perepujubijiregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/magefakifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23375532976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/98876521204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/84316462285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced1fb56adc24ca0ace0b9c0bc139c3a/52973855163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/34145915050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/vifizaveraxapege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/mevomemurobisugofokoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potlista.com/file/files/20052064509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e56199a0---68296073199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/79750876820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/gipamenepinukovaxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61bf96e8d0546a9435262be3811cba1/65997473920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafautama.com/uploads/file/2663879388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d06daaad5---dogeropasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc22c1e9d1---sisuxujavagiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitafest.com/clients/1/13/1337b7689af00ddd847345d48bd720ff/File/zozepuxoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250c06c46b28e39b8245a232d28cad17/nafizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/xagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=uniden+r3+user+manual+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_off0000e2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2ED 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 5fe17fa31924cc49cc7d537c1628042a399205845440a87861a5cd8257f89bf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001138a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138A 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 8f163d7d29a52b62d4f3b47ed3e05915644b3372401a13a155d24e1005005612