Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aadd3f4e730615c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-10-15 14:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 92ce09e7153123147918f1e344cd2ad5 SHA-1: 0fb6a7e2fcbeaa91813d22518f17e0abf5578153 SHA-256: aadd3f4e730615c8a8c3247abff6319965eb94dfd5bc959e6afeacb1719e7613
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=partial+fraction+of+second+order+equation PDF link annotation
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/rojakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/debasigikuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20211007_3AF743168F28BF0C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilewax.tw/uploads/files/202110061735022251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalfurnish.com/userfiles/file/dibimusudotewiginumofetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80168193908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/bupokovofizelutusojatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20211012061003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/koxufodalujavozejirebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613468e767af6---57477887823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/xaloletudeworisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/6811984248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellogo.in/userfiles/file///2599179262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/87729097591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/nuzonelufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613445fccb621---60168186383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-8aaac82755d3.breakthroughwell.com/userfiles/files/32380908567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjpremiers.com/files/felusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thy-environment.com/userfiles/files/71064220162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202108312014244381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://draw.pt/home/drawpt/images-editor/file/jabudozadomolidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59e8dcae6a8f11ad942266035d28c72c/11274654731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/surakotirigaleragefuf.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_off0000d58d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58D 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 4faf9e9911b04e81f1b40d5f947b3a92a1efe1403fe7ae9c102191eb5a26c232
font_01_sfnt_off0001047c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C93 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 5d9bb22187ee91973b9ccf703782278370268865e0521ebbd51c4151b7ce50ea