Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ada1ab677fcf3e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e6912107543186b74f85a2899ccdea83 SHA-1: 87a448e9d8d89e57afd1a2715325413c1b7b15c3 SHA-256: ada1ab677fcf3e124b80560078af114d9c5338dd8e7978416120d1d3d82da963
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content, aligning with the typical behavior of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=does+it+hurt+a+refrigerator+to+lay+it+down PDF link annotation
    • http://geyuping.com/geyuping/uploadfile/file/2021091219561473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watchimport.eu/userfiles/file/1971919170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a78e1d974338a9a4b244aedb0be74393/50229183538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d4c82d885---taremoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/57803613032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65582212854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekoelprom.pl/public/images/editor/file/rivivobilowopesozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medic-pneumolog.ro/fisiere/file/nusedarajuzagikivuzavenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/89155177976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1415e8af5---lemaropimakerelidobadide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/10365870830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/34428082014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/9507877313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fteq.ru/files/file/16195781365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/murilolibibegatitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/42590730933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/rixeputuvafuritirukamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70552b5d7ea9e9b67801f8f1f73e00bc/napogedigowawaxelogabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614099b2858cb---jirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c16e82f3b---vezedirajokolapugalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/dekiserekexanuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/mavevujofobegevabinuguvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///wimubakukusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/47719187827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/puluxoxaxidog.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_off0000e108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE108 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 3cd1a7266ecb6496ce74a1063296a0ef344b032936cfc7c649d6745fefb769cb
font_01_sfnt_off00010f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F81 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 76836639b833f1305a7a6f3c8f6684542f33b06527091bc7409f4178842ec1f2
font_02_sfnt_off000128a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1