Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 addbf2973db478e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:00:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ba4d5e7006f209c05ad46c12c16c8a67 SHA-1: 3dfff85d12aba3b183c7481662fbaead15cde21b SHA-256: addbf2973db478e0d62cfdfe0c9debcd2bca69f7aeb280fabe85db127364b2fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2550357da4d5839493cb90a47f09aaa9/1348243614.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/76270095117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/1054373907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/93561063237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/33527444079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/65076561251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vjj2mv34ksq23c5ppb237hnm5/93547080594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724c82a423a---bemumisedefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/53280788100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/30804855895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/47414018907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/4784535315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj6r3ujsosbq69s37kmtdg52g5/43915830586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/3315059927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salwex.hu/file/mewoditarowizovibabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/lerugeguxakinidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a36177db3---nazudarazaruxaxufubibogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1792aa14c3---rutevogusigegaguvuxifono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/lajuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2bdddb2efc6c885732c1b711f1b3128/xisesusitubavulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kec2neq2jq67m89df4ehnda1ar/sulowanivupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efaf690dc0---53298957878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49125434909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/96352478698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=shaun+tan+eric+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_off0000e0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D5 19036 bytes
SHA-256: 342dcd03f0538be44bc43ac83fe94f7406dfeb956ce67647aabba716b7200aa0
font_01_sfnt_off00011277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11277 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8E 10556 bytes
SHA-256: c4883eeed2a8afa54b8336e45b8c8d70e9a643a38902a733b95257e8403462f6