Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad57b2beb73a8ebb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:16:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7a7decf2a149afc020b8a66504fb016d SHA-1: fafbb73daccf36cbb42620ecce390badb3b9eef3 SHA-256: ad57b2beb73a8ebb583e7e63dc49e3ef2d1e3fa059a85b613501b37dcd9d7daf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs that exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=macmillan+readers+upper+intermediate+level+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq8gmns1d1bt60bctboasicss2/73309550351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/58899291718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3o91fan9k1ltrqfet4r455eib/zamixiratujasemurilinenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/logikafelimowuzivapibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40537927111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvamixoxesevulesixunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410e20d3af61c91a0c6fa92bbb8e543f/29444897627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/tasakinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59722994997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48978283861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3e81881cc9c68bb35057ae46130f72/piwupopogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/rulotowokapesuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/xomumobunano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/fejovofufikudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ckhqda8elltfqggsqv36038gb/72710234042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/valax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/kidazonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/userfiles/files/58653993144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/7796345554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/tixoga.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_off0000b1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1F4 10820 bytes
SHA-256: e8c4e411b10a14a5a3f3719bcb759bd59b886e12202f660072b0b5f1b9677970
font_01_sfnt_off0000cadf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADF 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 2fc35e265763278b57cb7144de393cd4e62f99571a729e1d3d444e4a2ed5b23b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1