Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad3a2c81890f2e98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:20:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 57dfc77acbbf22ecd5a84e345fac238f SHA-1: 3e132ec53eab57fdc8c281456b486ce9c5650f90 SHA-256: ad3a2c81890f2e98336b27896ebe2762d8cc156b19a0af7cc56de54a5ce8c36d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pink+diamond+kobe+locker+code+2k21 PDF link annotation
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///rezuxamizatexawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/luvoderejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/96411197014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.eu/upload/editor/file/pofojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/nizozosamedugopekeragejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75725416356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myslizdrave.com/soubory/91037972071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613424080f9d2---96327301967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/33792672557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ba8781440---kavozulurutawatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/58439573473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kasufivupigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/48745714722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/66604255608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seghers.kr/data/editor/file/1872527407613d8e9e0059a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/77982303783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/begijenikovazoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390a92eeb21---gopirirolajaxowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdudyogtechnologies.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwojovokalowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd93eb248c---zokivugeroguzumupumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/625fa9b5b5a0836427b16a88e7a8ce6b/11772305137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d16d9c88e58add6a777ed43baa5be04/44760515151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/severaguderopubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mepazasakilagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/58619926930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210907_060512.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_off00010c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12492 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 219f80512ca500f3aeead35be410bfcda24da7d3bfd9fd174e0ec471f1bba6f0
font_02_sfnt_off00015087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15087 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 36f322e47f0e59ef0e48a3ccefdaf0dc9574300c6d5dc92a318449fc6ccd1583