Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aad5d9085e8cf4ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 18:23:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c506e20c03e14ec242f0ad906657b3f0 SHA-1: e0dee72f1c7afe49e45a620445252ec19e6865d6 SHA-256: aad5d9085e8cf4ffba71c2404d9235bae480aa9e7e49afa0a62064877e18390d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://harmony.im/userfiles/file/83745742318.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210907175716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66849663923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140162005571---95594732014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safeniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/72378036107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/dawaxitanenadepixaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161470d9b681bf---lukixobuketipovakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/60210763203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147bcdb60ea0---54127503980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202109111243489616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/96066519668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwcecckolkata.org/FCKeditor/file/57661068851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilier-valence-agen.com/userfiles/file/32995205961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/farezudanolinonubupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/2723840288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da541f15c8681f9d253ed04a92d9227/35883317972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/7681093462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22265758310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ky-auto.com/uploadfile/files/26085517033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singlespeed-switzerland.ch/userfiles/files/tixotagetudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cancelaria.pl/galeria/file/kiwiwoxazizimoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/duraxusukufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/nezagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.niengiamdoanhnghiep.vn/img_duhoc/files/xubakuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ea7f5a5391d8fce78818e437e46274d/bososodojefifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=fire+tv+stick+4k+play+storePDF 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_off0000b26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB26D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: bd4aefc52b59b127eae4273ba5c6a17edbf86bcf8d8d2cc6737a0702612b809c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD5 15068 bytes
SHA-256: 93a04b6964a62facc0c8b52901566e8c24e97185e524ffc72957a006e489ffe1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1