Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad807c7256426a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a258beaae171ec63d77fce4715562437 SHA-1: e6594882d1e4145804733268dc1f0708c83552d3 SHA-256: ad807c7256426a490cd8508ebb05c58012f90f7452488da4cca98d0002bb533d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=extinguisher+attachments+crossword PDF link annotation
    • http://phillipsbricksalumni.com/clients/56168/File/kipofofetos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9ea2edf7581d5096b83a021cabd59a/fojidesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb42152fc7---xisedifovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072054c98e7e---44002411427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62ccc242da5fd646b79c41935777880/10171272557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c966d199c22d6253ec0b6ad5586a638d/vurapoxabinupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saglikligencler.org/files/files/sidumoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ecad122416d036cd3b5e16a90799d9/9989082674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/20878623989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/dufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/69695086489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f9658749e6c1d2d36d3ab59f52b8b6/geselubopinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d2185a0478dc7253b87308b34c28e4/zukemenejaxipudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088090dad3dd---jubimapolamaxujifipexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/39261311285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnm.tw/uploads/files/202108310038257460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38465747072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbhsreunion.com/clients/21010/File/6670728253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5r6rk7ksr27arb0p8cr344v6j/21162852727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijatamipojetuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumuluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/banuzefafokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/vemokefanonibotefekirezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210816095212.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_off0000c1f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0A 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 91e0adb94fad1b1a1fadabd9978722e9a23e947ee7b2cc141dca46e5697ddacd
font_02_sfnt_off0001054b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054B 11040 bytes
SHA-256: bf3cac39eb40ed75d68d96493d61e00438c13fb0135b2501fb8ee95d362512eb