Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe45320de020352d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:37:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3df55b74362bd4390a797c2928ceac05 SHA-1: 30b8806eb7680bd6adb95430a49287b7bf7712d3 SHA-256: fe45320de020352d46da449371d48663aa523204fcfef8fdac99519b4e9e8c43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=java+se+development+kit+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/33390954164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e80c627c83c9758ef6146eb6f68ce3d/puvawilidiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161491759ef5ac---wotukofonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plise.org/userfiles/file/90956847521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f463010874---53555845878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77094466599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/zoponuzadefulasufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/84255323946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/wobowerusipumokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents/files/36274069540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hak-al.com/resimler/files/zewewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a18157c907---89340149251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karaokejdi.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/rufonudotajuvusipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matraci.info/UserFiles/File/gaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpiequipos.com/assets/images/user_files/files/segen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetimubifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/lubutejesixareronuzeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/46889835306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reafamily.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4789540525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatcanidoforyou.eu/publish/file/44710221552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4327242771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/zolebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/61512107442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/5488175561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0d97bcd56bc843cb241866863f9394/23938042799.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_off0000efc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC8 18404 bytes
SHA-256: ff94e9e290b9ae0ce869945e0a3afa37a819f458a1295f262b78e77407b81f0f
font_01_sfnt_off00012052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13869 10808 bytes
SHA-256: ff7999c217a47719c601a219a354ff8699ecd32fc675d89832d922f0f6d765ac