Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade026791e535dfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:07:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 188a5cf982bde064d76308fb3fa0c80b SHA-1: 916d8080dd2ac804717198bced7613644701e44c SHA-256: ade026791e535dfadee33c626fe1f8a26a4bf17d7d89d91f63f2ed5bb8fa9176
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, directing users to PDF files. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/vubupozavifogukinokimof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgiqsa9uv9n9tbvkpqcjm1ao82/jopufunime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/84965603488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/58701786816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ceb6381b17caf02ddd45b0898e27fa0/33635005488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/13303639139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c87d0e0d7ab819398d4addfaec8b94/sejokoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890072b1f98---21258785042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/41534997440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/zigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/78112315414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e1c94b552---xiwutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23788703836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add219d3b2b---75185524148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/72517568289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progin.swiss/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefevadijega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/robezezivijuzatima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zubrcup.by/files/files/11792408773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd697442b---vikufoxafotaxojob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/75288158954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc2df2b5216c9b0fbfff562409d17837/39896091956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/12048021999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5bfb145ac---mixobojosusuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/pixegonawurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/burebudunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=jpg+to+pdf+file+converterPDF 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_off0000df1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1E 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 3ad13f740d2f8af5889345c68d9a53faf815b7cebbc06c087c89129c1453b2d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F5 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 4f9d53c7c7a41b172477c5037a403a62f821f569adf88c6f272ab4d91c49b8db
font_02_sfnt_off00012216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12216 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1