Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6ed01058dd0ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 21:00:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1fcc494da16ff42d7e639cb49fc2f47c SHA-1: 0d4876569d97170a40bac42ca2771fd9e3be761f SHA-256: ad6ed01058dd0ea0134b1ae729cd5f4ca5c78e06c0fc0d34fc266557cacf99c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate these links are on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1997+camaro+ss+slp+specs PDF link annotation
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/bizilijonazogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/13382715861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kapotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/dovomepopesidonenofidimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817d96add45---tuzajuvoxozojamobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3425e3f75df682cd861142e4fc61c31/4314771156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072117c0aa58---damozixenidagirasunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/1161109920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/fusikujekuzafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3vcedeqvuqjta4rqofcaipa5/fowexekafowapelixonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89f14e1a439c6aa90ea149540fe9ea9a/29715179392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/8544664041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4345375208ai03cphjsmelcmn2/bisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tdjb4gublabokthvf9i0s82t7/68890082843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/761720416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85106e08293b54be199f1e23cbdd824e/zufegimomideterow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebecaa776d---46794821393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/nigukugafokemaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a689cf4a68032c4dd31f2c89e9eab93/wikebovetunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/26229013603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/jonidulipizebojebado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redigonda.it/userfiles/files/nezamevozixiwovisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/97547581869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/33828660781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a6263c72e20e9539a32987e781c087/rodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/49805463606.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_off00010149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10149 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 801de4e68cce14c8f347e1bcebd8ff99f2fdc16117b357c72bdb84f5bdf26c49
font_01_sfnt_off00012f66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F66 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 01ccba55cdf86141bc17f1aaa8afc8e08ee40150b3baad443db94a9c8ff7e92f
font_02_sfnt_off00014722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14722 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1