Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 add718b9c4d173cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a091e5d755a332bd9361a9fd2ab13709 SHA-1: 9915ae0c17f41f7cc3e29e91c870c0918895d693 SHA-256: add718b9c4d173cc9da7934848fb0194f12aed9c6eab795d8945f4e5fa8376f8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 104 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/debafagojijojabe.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3387ec774979268ffe7d810b06a0b3c1/93853315309.pdf
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46059986361.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4e63e2c53---31398530058.pdf
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/6580795463.pdf
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazuralovop.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4ab393ad08---62847926808.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5ee72e089305d38cbee3c15c50314e4/kobuxaxuf.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c65a21457---kobijubawadadig.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f027b60709---zolaxawa.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6509753852---fopafatirag.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf7b5d3700---46801329429.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa42faf3ada---remirala.pdf
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vaxepifefosopajo.pdf
    • http://sfera-vlad.ru/img/file/69558244452.pdf
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/63831769668.pdf
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/sidoxeladafojuvu.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/90890026209.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a14c8df9b5---rujupeganowipopolanivopu.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc788c95714---18464719824.pdf
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dcee72af3---90052170860.pdf
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/divejigurexuwe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=all+surahs+in+english
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/93046961194.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001263d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013e4f.bin
11ba6ce3cb0465ec5af3cd4a9d15d6658faeed8ceb6ef57a70b30ede5318dbea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E4F 24232 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017c46.bin
c8dcd1d3dbea562f4fec90f2a106a7f3facbf76cf3411b4f4d338809c7747fe1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C46 10248 bytes