Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db45a36360bdd015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9be11182e739b66f29936c0ef136af37 SHA-1: b421d9872849d8bc60ed3c8ce1402ab1bfd5e7fd SHA-256: db45a36360bdd015fe3ffb41ac87c66e3326aadc97e69907a4240f5c90c20d9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=slant+height+to+height+calculator PDF link annotation
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9295222365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/nipudofurivowefutogevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f498f88c67c83d27615acc7a5bfb1a/monufadofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnjoq9jc3rkghd526gfgp91jfg/sobudesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e82dc96b58---vogebijade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baecfe70c8e---zituzeditilutifavuvaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f961d019ded3c0086f834b96895d4b31/piludebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/65701702908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28605088a45b545f317819e40c4abb32/79225598539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caaea0822475c4937221cbf7a7154f17/70789725122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/088fcb08ea9ce07029fb6b4849a5d060/retozurixikubenobosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/21811001315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/96489440241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/91977618588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f70619f61ac64bd321313c307ad4772/bonibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76173fd7c5f298f93902fc3b36a59fbd/rujikituledunexegiroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a795849df0ad53e659e6d393d0d0bd7d/zemoxopizabakalatitexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/foxotukovotuwanibofulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94460c0e8c---pedapukawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f22274843---56357048008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/94947059667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/68602252541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19507572704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0941c205---34401031293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/dososimifafare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72mgkprfo213scpf6qdau3dlrj/71842355983.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_off00010d70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D70 20136 bytes
SHA-256: 63093593d44fe55dc157365a4398c719b43b12ee1087f8d5e43afafe00e4bedc
font_01_sfnt_off0001429b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1429B 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 714911c1dc716bd50f1ff5dc8c740f3cc7e42387577d78fbe1a792acf2c35496
font_02_sfnt_off00015a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1