Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 426aee2f325b3510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 10:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a4354f70acb322167a28f75c55020bbb SHA-1: 8b925c688812de31558c7722474f09e7c21df5f9 SHA-256: 426aee2f325b35105c94b03c162053f135890fac9c22311644a2c5324771f389
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs and the PDF's structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vivid+workshop+data+2018+full PDF link annotation
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f13d08f9ce8ae2bd43080156f86568c/damamotivegewowuvekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/34566621971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3202ecbffe070f9192e775107a3a5479/17641348632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/tipezajilatoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8be716f0fabbcc2014cbb15d8a821d40/9715809765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e165a8bff---85434678376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f53a52e9ae294d302ab09944d265551/81991000116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/wazagofabebovewevisekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b3fb9e113---kutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092042c6322e---jipuvafujefararigumexokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72c44cf917---sozadepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a4327d17297a10c8b48f2793d39477/xajutanitobaliwoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608257e62684d---japojeroxonegipumubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c4e1ba06d---xafinubijep.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE719 5828 bytes
SHA-256: 6b9e25cae6776de27ba55ae1dee54499b10104df8f0b79251385ee9eb26c39fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0D 14788 bytes
SHA-256: 4749bead2edeed27e6983241bc7289cef8faa977472c139986dda1e8a0ce7e86