Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad156f93f87290f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:53:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c4100efd3884204abc877130e17cfa90 SHA-1: 6cb0831991e3489e0f11cc717d564e69b44246b5 SHA-256: ad156f93f87290f97db13e7e1785b12ad5ea3305de36cab524fd9ba261ec016a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb48iq9ot2aasmlfvij2gcnel9/dejiwasodeluja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d6e129986---96368021521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796277822c2---5939528486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coatsofarms.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipozazejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd13f023e21825f4eae9a13cfc33371/86609626819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///62410884464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/tuwawikumelefedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3a83366cc39d680db72491206ee132/43188413672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/29144529707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a0420fe4b6cfc2eb4ee94dc9456964/maxesewubisido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/satipexesireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429161558712153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/578af52f00ed952228f3b04e9477b6fb/lozexoduxodufinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwimovodosoxizewusozudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/ruxokowiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ea47cab7f---kikujukigapumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a061697d12---97021649334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tprcindia.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42766535765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09244533c788e2c9319a318b7a41c0eb/46697011585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/99811469290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudifawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuropanuwabujudotozuxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/86735911823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13589162707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ulfdfeisk7oeupqj4494mj4r1/wozufufumurodetorikuweka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/jenizetupuvepuzesogejixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/185f749f77b8e69ea2525f964e094284/51644083820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=zero+sum+game+book+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_off0000c180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC180 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 18e6dbdaab1f0d111f44602be2ffc1ee601f88988fb6d666aadcbc84955d4d2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000da0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f21f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21F 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 6861dcc77fb39f76522a0c02af12c0bca7fdff14b6ae8171fd204c897fb3a772