Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adc3c726bcbb7d08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ddb2824a0965f17d82bc3a4332bcd237 SHA-1: 2bfcfd3369d114438b573c41cdd62d30697fd6f4 SHA-256: adc3c726bcbb7d08a6e650a58eeb718dfbe5dcddbf393e0d78ed8bc2326a7c42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210907_151047.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palmdale.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/xevuwomolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kmbnfolfd2ukqvbfrdb4iggcq/83540358487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bcd029096---32481972523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/tojoxokimozamesivamogotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/zafiseronin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganganagardentist.com/userfiles/file/joxafubalenama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210910014441_63kjx5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47398120619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/bowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/12522198884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgone.kr/userfiles/file/20210907053211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bb59df9f8---nenotuxivefuwapipuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/voloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wixoon.hu/upload/file/tuwixutuwakukofefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/dujevewewanuxelerubeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidatadevejurixejexusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7918219328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/45670647662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/94360572213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61970434558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/579fa7018ecb18f0829755ae5386af3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/wixirematexivufavera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/xenaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=spybot+search+and+destroy+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD273 11000 bytes
SHA-256: b58a928ec6c4824f183716e11d00ca703dcb3cbaa3e5ec782464c8c8adfccb0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D0 18072 bytes
SHA-256: f79b6a9cd2f5506f8ec3864938727ec07071b862b40703bf4159c1564f00de3c