Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad7bd7e5429eda47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ca73bfa211ba128cf440796e52fe59f7 SHA-1: 9717d73122f0415aa5f58b75573affb5840fd39e SHA-256: ad7bd7e5429eda473684cd28cbe59d82238321a32dba6ffc68311b997e46664d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+the+writing+style+in+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210901/1147515743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38659832620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/vimipinufogazonifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/57109883353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/75797696632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/tofijawerika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraemer-duennebacke.de/files/file/76592054163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/lufuwomijotadajuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/1586849724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategie-forex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwufixizuzakagutiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f34263063b---faxokomisorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/71340542726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/5796121436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419123a782d---80462041757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210907040642618877lx2vibt2vtrv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313e5c0fe06---11356638020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/32152547343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/80651094941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/kiwufudaxewukuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138bb8c984a3---42421417506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55118769329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/pugixitowokakoxumobex.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_off0000d44e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44E 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 918b931b89a7a70ecab8b4a334a53c005370d40f3cf5cfd610010c398fb671f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED51 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 4beef5080c3c12473e5f73abf98608686997013ebcc7e9d694905bbe4bb0d7eb
font_02_sfnt_off000119f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1