Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad2ca8dfe830a7c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:46:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1a7f08bafe2463050fbb59aa73d88af0 SHA-1: ec2322f2e975f2e509bb34d07a74d0c51a862e54 SHA-256: ad2ca8dfe830a7c854f05f82c025860cc7d702d4ae64d241e61f1d9cbb2f5553
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/vijadisinibasolitodenus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/52419726887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46361210189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92d1407c108c153b3bf81b3085f6c357/rafepola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jusakegosikoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfnhsw.com/upload/files/roxokilorefabuwilufefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.painters-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/lixajirusawabijidetijuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/ruromejemefalijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uei46hfet79bbke77jnr7kg0nd/gejamapalifovuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/derezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383745e97a4---kizudoselanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/87319467215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/zenunujopevuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/14806238563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cfca9558f---sobaxivilutibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f9da59b53---21133221512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacene.com/userfiles/files/vonimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/zusavukefugosavixikufobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6137F3D929978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/busavedixunozefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613337af316f7---kotemenumexitenubavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/61824800174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/96034166472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/muroxudaximojuvolutisokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+msgstore+filePDF 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_off0000eef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10705 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 5f0a650190cd0f9fe899bbd96e7e7ad1c1faad270a94b69faa621b85ee665460
font_02_sfnt_off0001348c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1348C 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 7bbea5c77be758d615d42231c3fd7408d638edbf20bc24615e747f9237cf9f94