Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1a1d77760bbecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 09:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8e21ba81ce645041a21dd743fe81fe38 SHA-1: 48521da2bf780f6352d8a20a90af875544b76f19 SHA-256: ad1a1d77760bbecdfa97d45d62256f78b0b3b4eada80efa6502e5b1a443252c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The numerous embedded URLs point to external sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates these links are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, commonly used to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=city+building+games+ipad PDF link annotation
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66330090136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133fdfb054d6---xowobajelitanaboludunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_80A0A0815097DEA4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/93685282336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaonoithatgiahung.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/75930573887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/66275114477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/jazewidowonawepabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5ecacf76c---vanugasebenepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/balomerisedoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5btsrvhbrlcb3lrqhpd9q3vh10/20540629432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/detawexijomofonepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/95860717769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202109file/2021090913054870554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/83453566733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///lajuropali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3dbe5d1a2---43016651225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgeonlaw.com/filespath/files/20210918162358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/wiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biondiairsystem.it/userfiles/files/vegasuvotexinegowobiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80682310897.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_off0000cce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE1 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 62975c021ef4b3cb7b58d974f2b37d205f4b4562e3cb9c6e4695ebcb4d36871d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B1 16648 bytes
SHA-256: bac9c91c4fd64852f44e08eb0eeed7bb6a05ed9c2c252b51830c74200012ad06
font_02_sfnt_off000110a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1