Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad8714b299aace88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:14:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6309e139761052e937ebf9f7c8cb8fc9 SHA-1: bac25e508b36f230f4ef30fe91b50bf24a1e32ed SHA-256: ad8714b299aace88320de91a7ba75db98e2894ee3a0e4091dcd4fa21a26f0600
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=imo+apk+apps PDF link annotation
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veferilogijalisaruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/mifebuzovosatodize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skalamatbaa.com/userfiles/file/kewidinemikiduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613924bf2832a---gebamokovoremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/12846648344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/jefobederolezubufadexosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/laputodadidozuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuderprogettazione.it/userfiles/files/8490568956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/mijonaniweziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woliwofutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/nokukidotiwesapesewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/tolinerilavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/80412132328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbautotech.com/board/datafiles/imagefile/54272446241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/32994058079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86400156265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/gepobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/rovugibetejasolokales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d566296e---6838373781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aguito.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezovodikuleregaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siksp.megarhizo.com/ci/userfiles/files/zugabinujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/37980219781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302cad2fa38---57731111063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4306171423.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_off0000db5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF375 9884 bytes
SHA-256: c0909d4bce97cbc8aa43355ccfe4b1c5e889f2f168bc520461b0a2e248f2bea1
font_02_sfnt_off0001093e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093E 18788 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc22f46c3b6f9bed727a2235455446b30530f59d17379a078fb9acf3c645ed0