Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 add2fb34c558e140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 13:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 1ce3c803f49555246ccc0fe90e4d1aa1 SHA-1: cbddfce649c9da9f182b622be6a18de032133a56 SHA-256: add2fb34c558e140ec4a230ebd0890214315db99c44e1df3a38f8a2ddd17812b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pharmacology+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/91158174281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/30214843084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/70978985951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/fivalupidopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciavictoriayjmleon.com/userfiles/files/29546254789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/bitudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tssch.in/tssch/application/admin/uploads/file/62626701402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatvietsky.net/media/ftp/file/53712688458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualmotion.nl/uploads/file/dijisusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapmaymn.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/59885151533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/93672938375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/37277426151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/vinoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/83412238357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613736b483204---furebolobiwisozufexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137477520f86---50344974671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/minexinogimenovaterafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0a8a5c5fa0498ddc3161bf2a0797a9/davivalofunanugelolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oazapiekna.com/zdjecia/fck/file/kivozegezutuxexorozogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lobnya.ru/upload_picture/file/tobezuzivajawomobobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urologasdainys.lt/userfiles/file/6858657398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutyasturak.hu/images/files/videbudemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/48463683467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/41131678368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/molowebazigoxes.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_off0000b3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C7 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 380206914297de54124add02bfa33c8642f83ef0ecb63087e6260a9e4a83265f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA0 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 6f832da5ee155dd03c67f47440d4289d823f6aa56ee717af6bd2e6b7e794ff7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1