Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad08d31eaf16dbc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-08-01 11:22:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: df27deee11e36b86161e55e48f927b00 SHA-1: 525a1bf40d1892f2ae1a6a235e60b62e0feea74f SHA-256: ad08d31eaf16dbc56537d3b35ad9c82c3bc29b3fa39e46f1afdc6a04ba2b278b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, and the structure suggests it's intended to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9adf5bdf1abac314d536276df11a241c/bebaridibur.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb8eda6d88---rudasixawavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/36306126756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjpnng3g0bon41kc2rk431sat7/bugisevugasutipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/litawurunaforogufuweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumoinoi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawupudokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5hgha4dgeigbjeun734ornu52/1863141714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/4748907349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.com/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/13278015615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/42476670164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7a56a8fbff077d0b2a3fcfdea8d19a/27488106755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/86803425327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/29576634235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/3237582410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/77099866764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609167fe2923f---jezokubakipixitimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/7434969252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/jogunulabesivoxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/48372714092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/zadawusumebepimaloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/bodugusunanotanofavunafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078633faf1d7---pipasetavepakunotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/zotudeloresijividatobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/42483236357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=continuum+epilepsy+2019+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_off000104c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C4 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 4175877489a27b2b4756d15ff8c307c2c213b3a257fbe67444757c28e0b18cc6
font_01_sfnt_off000132f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F8 11104 bytes
SHA-256: a4be76c0b388eea097e1e65724ec8e2b209b196aa110f95c6872b05a88fff5d4
font_02_sfnt_off00014cfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1