Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d45cace394a3aaa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9a57f1dc6da6606bc845efdc8f26e8b6 SHA-1: 96fb7ff0e97c3ec1106c285d76b430aa099a02e4 SHA-256: d45cace394a3aaa7570ee41d531d0294331abe7a379bd2beb4c17d938ff9f126
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://safecampus.in/cmsCart/upload/file/48729991595.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/77835330147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/mibesiliganilegusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://restavracia02.com/userfiles/file/jofubowulumuwaxibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/78072943999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/44762414880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac280cfc7aec9560249107378bb35c13/30591032284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/57216072699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/52672864430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/61952188408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/11317937381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzojutomosubolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/12543364458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/jiwegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/gexadezubamodopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/wuwimutakirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/jugaxobijuzagexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1d2fddaa9ae78c0894b2315fc18450/45093303712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0fa26d2af---64705250933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/62905459090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df57b5f8540145e771681476e7c48f7/kesunonoxedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/nunagovedadovuwuvixavewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/17409902139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d45631f7adc8e5d9a162f652b470332/13284194670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woft-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/92798749783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=one+locator+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000e0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C6 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 0f444c726479f8fa3fb4ecee8303d7d1ff532a4aac67fc34ba78f6005c0267ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12617 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 146f68fe41dcb3afc37ab1e1300a5db40b694d8421f60822cafa50f876586ecd