Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aade0a2ae71b6ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 23:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 882fde61b226eba64a918cdc42ce663d SHA-1: b4627bd6a4c35f292db4225d6976349117633d34 SHA-256: 2aade0a2ae71b6ce529017cbcfcaf039400c025375b69f61d044875fea744978
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'fake invoice/payment lure' heuristic further supports the phishing intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics indicate it's designed to lead users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukura.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629031844868175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b6253be9100d943882abfd3cf5f777/vuvenekavesemisekudovoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/93837403865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51b794a9546e332d28e9c40b89fa28e3/gagotaduregugigolimuvebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdce1003f47---30690682407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210519162138620672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca2d42053e---7074230656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/23238933655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/202c22bcb3582b1e4d3cca1e4337f1e2/52770307680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d6d28e5900555730e77180c715fa40e/padorizerajiniluvuwopogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9f0a257588abaf9b10ab89429a16ae4/luxufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daebec91ca9---420015862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/tukovobidifixajukedowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/25627081534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/54178028967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/putureke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/567a24c3d0675e09227c9ba30f44ad3b/98766724534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/91872727563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalihemp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63546736689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f4762fef1---rugufajezisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+resignation+letter+due+to+non+payment+of+salaryPDF 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_off0000ded7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED7 16212 bytes
SHA-256: 554faf2c953a96de6aefa855cea960a4aed7f269370e8f2b9f2032607a3482d7
font_01_sfnt_off000108c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120DC 11132 bytes
SHA-256: b9dbb022d1da5a7601b040ec6eb208523af7c569740ff051e03a0913dc12a1e9