Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ada1cd8d8ce4cdbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 35f0ba4097766d3746449eeb96c72242 SHA-1: c5b1a6923aa1fac4c3c273cde42100580d4e5d12 SHA-256: ada1cd8d8ce4cdbd952e8582af785b83f4807234c926c51366a97168a6cc9cd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no executable scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/25541356351.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://calliopegoodrich.com/clients/73417/File/pabosasujinedimubonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/18745103117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/borujapazulejore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajibezidedodipesukikobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608214f6b88fb---91973025149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c7eb61fdb---20042060613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://violetstudio.in/userfiles/file/bajomonutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/32355297786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/87933423504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/gisokivebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d425c6545c87bec156fb76c4bd9c940/fetomodosonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents//files/xidatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/letisuxeziwulamubukive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/vorokogilage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d9292f733---83199964696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9f211b58f---vajodapakaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdnej7u2o4vhub7461jkngdgi6/77293408001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa4b2f370e---53876815587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.com/upload/files/lolemokakilijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/fupadeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62744774e5---bexevizexazagalevusokasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/18109622023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7114259614---32192071591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/ruterubixefevuvivebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+elementary+particle+physics+bettini+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_off0000e7d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D2 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 4ab82063a72981cb6a7532da975b749e37b0c93e23fad9b22dff7a0012531da9
font_01_sfnt_off0001019e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B0 20336 bytes
SHA-256: 7d6b49818f8a6e2204ea34e48a5b14496888f9cee5eb904dc6749866814119b1