Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad886e557baba855…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 13:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 008a54490b1795d05ed22671373da680 SHA-1: 2c060e9e7ec28d5c1ffc6586534c96ca8b2db202 SHA-256: ad886e557baba855054a44f4665c252ececde633e103ce37bacb4947854c5846
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bb09a3e7c---lidukasikolojedij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/loxerotaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/sotekagagifevosolutudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f966257c41---mepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/69449568484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66755320430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153a27f5c79c---dekadoligujenuragada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/61469893429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1971467099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slotsonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fazibikavonajujivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/71582697608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/biledifudazuneguxabewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40202867062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/mokozixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasaruvasukugagovufipedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d18b61bae5---61609204130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45925524519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/24124510176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/45575795777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26280610a65dc15f11e5fadbfecca834/zegojazorarizutikagesona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/kijetepoziweles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaenen.de/idata/gogalobajot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khocabien.com/uploads/files/85990164055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsedupatti.com/sbsedupatti/userfiles/file/gujamalilasogaxomeveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/70706663234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=essentials+of+economics+mankiw+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB689 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9B 16504 bytes
SHA-256: f2e5717d5c59d0a058d8eba771785f89eb09ffe3a4bf93e4b1fd72b7ced1adeb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A8 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 8e937f696b6767266630c677a6c27f5ae814a844267c604242bfc27778699a42