Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed45c367726bfa0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 10:36:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 2c2c65d6d360dbacd360d821e98d4fce SHA-1: aa06123fe4b95bb2e82d4efdbabd12f7569f64fa SHA-256: ed45c367726bfa0a363d47b1639bbc84fb51f13f6c0aad9e6e20e62aa0266486
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+pomelo+file+explorer PDF link annotation
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82634f822ce967e4f93624281519fd69/gidemaropes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df76133b57e1a4ed5f3bb97f3f1e921/48094858099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ce668751c---siwasasapuligarigig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1e62b51bd5256529bd4c78ea7c0b6d/86384561807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885dd6503de2ae50bac965bc88efb311/wuwegorizajigubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb43b40af1bcd9bafd49ffb24a7ac58/4746510209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a020bf3950a---56889427047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760a60ae66b---71350759449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/radudufafiwalafoxuvimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd7005132e0bbfb5484a4313ea5231c/32581271173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856bdb50221---dutedarupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d097b714ddb0aa67943dae7007f62c/wimavivuzivikabuwovejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6a043f13d---48835715003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fef4d45d10e733b6a67d61be15dd54/674997808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086eeb771815---93421283132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/noxeniseziperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A2 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 1054ec97b80997aaca1348aafc5e8848a76cf9f04d16eb973aefc99fb732da16
font_01_sfnt_off0001093f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093F 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off0001149b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149B 2988 bytes
SHA-256: c572bd4f57fc22caa5afc47f340ba9d3425ebc6cc945bd2e0785e9102c0c4c66
font_03_sfnt_off00012174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12174 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 476314e93015accb678364d7052417bb7d97ad15b060bbdef29bc98b04d44f14
font_04_sfnt_off000146d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D0 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 0a848928a4fd5de13c0604082aaaa6239ce80a3974946c5e4af2441e4fc6ab2a