Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad1dfca450e71b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 00:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5443410dd599d7e274df532fb5ee87f0 SHA-1: 00c548697efc4a2c77f2223eb2af5300097e9392 SHA-256: 8ad1dfca450e71b402621e94253cabec052ecc1dc53ae4d9b6f5a8a9ecbf5448
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable domains, such as 'crysiq.ru' and 'americandeliorder.com'. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bugs+bunny+nes PDF link annotation
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/11497597992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d18768875eeb1018717b63060739da/90958586061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/viverimezigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villahetzwartepaard.nl/survey/userfiles/files/vovatajerowomewejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valosagoskincsesbanya.com/upload/file/ravap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/kuwulujajufurusuzipema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/19811195022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/97682325297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/niguruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waxiangyuan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907062548268618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/34968007048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/mavutepitoxutezijefebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/37055490309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/daluvunobotubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/batenazigevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/pimonupedosagoriwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/xotuvowelewivofuvedevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/82838612014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/97573672519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411107f40d3---86395747353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/4592041443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141126c1a5cb---wiruxirefobepikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd8c583522629b6bb2492f101f19b8af/40648942003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/puvuwewaviludup.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_off0000c94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE164 10072 bytes
SHA-256: f617c2be8208ab285dc77b8e29e3c6e9bb93d6d0c538d056fbfe3bdcbb29da89
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F7 18936 bytes
SHA-256: ea61a9dc2b83b6114dfa7468909ea5573b57feefd8c2e4207cf2d5c479c1ed6a

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