Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ade12fa303ace09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 02:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3cd792d57f7a70226ccd1f0722ece5ac SHA-1: 4241ec7603f5aee36c3a494927225d5236679022 SHA-256: 2ade12fa303ace09a165dee5e79ee925999425425bd094ce4294de97d8b158c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs suggest a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://xn--espaoldetalca-lkb.cl/var/www/html/upload/file/44653714856.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zukebato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/89610700072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/resefisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/jitudanejivivoxarezusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbi.cz/res/file/zotizozuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f0c9708e9aa852d275ae4b97dd9bba/senivosurenujulokizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614342d489c54---kewemugagudijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojidatibebabixixorifixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sierrainstruments.cn/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/silogotenewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/75148158194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/15393889911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4318a50cebb4f8a7e3f1fbc4dd4c8f50/lawibajijuvofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/93288442428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412e646744e---61275277210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fufomipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4n5rnfh6ckimdukr0i5c3ld72f/datudabagakorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/sobezewemugiseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/15/fuzalujedivegavijuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/teluxubupeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutotowutupulifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=codigo+nuremberg+pdfPDF 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_off0000eb84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB84 18404 bytes
SHA-256: 575bc75c77c0c0b84226d5de362c9ed1ce9c006bda4f9471a39a8366fb90f288
font_01_sfnt_off00011b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B66 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 9e5b01e4a869f9b645b08a94079a40cd29dfb6caf2e10df27e04609467187f92
font_02_sfnt_off0001333b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1333B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1