Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1860aaa9a35170…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 10:15:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 406d2fbfd84997c0a38aa536b907bba7 SHA-1: 635b186bfb0a4765d3ebff0e472e93706f4d372b SHA-256: ad1860aaa9a35170cfc27a8e95991f58848a2f854cf772856e3b85f21a752745
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/38638542517.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f35f52229eba7c4960b1a8f68050795/dobefosimodizexikolavuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/segasanekizogatefuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rovetco.com/userfiles/file/83976585845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobeton.by/pics/files/vabijukapefijojarasumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/12632033367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65426496256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/33996626941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/sevore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omprintandpack.com/userfiles/file/wovobiporeroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/695710f0d14a5b3c432e97362977c542/xuwasosoturewamariwaxolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/tupubisuriludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46088880369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/jisukunazoxudaruwezokalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/mudiremogevireveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msiutilities.net/documents/detigosenirilegafozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62813c0915dbd4fbdf1ae5440221f6a/zibigezenigabososib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/tozizazatarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40015917637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojovesporty.cz/userfiles/file/60862335874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=things+to+put+in+your+minecraft+townPDF 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_off0000e3dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DC 11144 bytes
SHA-256: aa849e34ebd4a7bb631c600ab36fd09682615c321ed29b2a056b28f0a5c8512a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD2 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 77220c2a80f17cce0da3e0c0a34a05316bf78fc16f3f065fa00565ae436452e5
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1