Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adc3ee74f96acea7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-25 00:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 558b3d8ef0d78c612bdca6bcb6c0173c SHA-1: d4cfc3d45f1ed64e79b48dbb7894089cb568213b SHA-256: adc3ee74f96acea7b1c89089848eca10a343fbc81a876aca6ffda994acc4bc78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ristechy+need+for+speed PDF link annotation
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/62784028452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/wovanixipunulin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/99848474518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/21366024261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/fimugoxegazusawumamepavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614607a64cb28---tagubisoverubopowuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-catamarans.de/res/wysiwyg/file/43525469404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21115508504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4830a7bac---nijimukiwakaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dierenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/xemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92251051619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135eefb2da91---31539922394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210918_040440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e900eb23ad56f06806865197bdd515c/63569755450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426b5bc3483---talavinazikopurire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74219345065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concilianavarra.com/userfiles/files/jovaradedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aiddhbkcq5bcaz.xn--p1ai/upload/files/91276437605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kivisaxipuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://receptabc.hu/images_banner/files/gatezome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/xariburomuxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtqedu.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/18243174749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/32932874704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/tafagifevarubikilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fac107c9fb---jisabikalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sswjeans.com/files/25069402309.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_off0000b399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB399 17076 bytes
SHA-256: f7ddfbafaa0e1d55c1ed97031545064e843c054705601ab78bb64bfa699ec43a
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9B 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 2ca9d9885f3ab54fefffd71d9e01c34a9015079575c61a46822f238d35510172
font_02_sfnt_off0000f709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF709 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1