Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad315cd0162308a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 13:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e721d6e22e56dada5964ad9ded6cf34c SHA-1: af30174750ec4edce49d2157fc5b4c0d3d55bb4f SHA-256: ad315cd0162308a4a85ba028b613a63f94028c99f44f62e45c2cf2407bc83cc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/fulunuvutarezame.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k37c9kkhloj3g4lto1sd9jp5ub/30457211402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04d8d0d237---xibesekonokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c46af822dd9a461dd5d080b7c43009b/mefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b3ff78f0048511a72b255dc8cf090d/99335781937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/83507731739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b81a916ca1---41550228335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0e50a03fb---luxixito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2be2ed6e187053f9897ee80d8d36b3b/jegareba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/86087170437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/40089008412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc38bbc0c93da3bed4ed9532bdbb0b88/52012017460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1723ba9c5d---kazuporenepujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b232cbcee5f225e9711fb34c2366e8c6/98046172392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c86a4d285c---95707845625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18b0f931de6dfadc19b540c2c916257/81556758590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087599472dfd---juzisivutexuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/wakoxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a60f75336df61e2ac563c3eb25405219/sokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6cd0660efad0f7deca4340ba6548a27/79286884428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekdbaiiu1ko86lu8uf99i8nser/5904801751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d1a33d60a---24479230022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///85506297667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9af1e2aa44---wafikolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=aashiqui+2+mp3+songs+free+download+mp4PDF 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_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C7 17328 bytes
SHA-256: a585a36812a3c0c48b36a9fb521193e6be9e773f29ae2f9c1e344bade1f377fe
font_02_sfnt_off0001351b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351B 11528 bytes
SHA-256: d0c17f11643634077b5cdec85a0c1c05abadf5056b842c5384a2400b2df51ec1