Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad094589208305c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-14 15:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7e5caff93a525c39255693d129f7ea8b SHA-1: 23d562607079813095531b710d115fa8ff1e0014 SHA-256: ad094589208305c124999a947125f39f3ce8f0dc75962cfca351460a47040e9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://swissfun.tv/var/www/porn4me.ch/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33872782532.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/tokedisokupariror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7d7db36574---41161129527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraemer-duennebacke.de/files/file/buxuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c930c381d17---81048606460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/35405214222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba42b81b9f2---32291399013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107c68fd6541---43524428769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a01656c449---35427183256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9307d63bbf---3830258067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/28395779924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608385c9f2893---kitolajoxasebevawanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/rawenimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f61df6524a---22921436104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de0b35375d2851761c3deed71373481/99564898834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents//files/mawewowidalitumijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/22320444154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/laxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktogel.com/contents//files/rexurojexirevedevukalik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/wofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/81481778905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zarovoravifuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210809190329_632294525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6fffba829aaebda63e3519b10e9a342/86303260652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amouage-salon.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31939956835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+statique+graphique+3+forcesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEA 11112 bytes
SHA-256: c93b6a2d11517a75e2e20daa7c210c24b8c4249cb1b5812f90df8c303892452f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C0 16076 bytes
SHA-256: c49465b94fe86b96ca820c65ff354120e534cda7b3173055630da28bac13411d
font_02_sfnt_off00010aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AED 18316 bytes
SHA-256: e64c4364559b3750f2099a4a8713cbb9f83badf373329dfaf206215b03c25060
font_03_sfnt_off000139b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1