Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade09c3a5e16b6ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 18:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 60011989c2eeb7b7d2b960a179db28a3 SHA-1: e67f79b408d8397b6bf2bb824b81b74c4037a462 SHA-256: ade09c3a5e16b6ef44aa239450ed339f9a353819f0b377d91d6e426fb9bf2c15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072acd57b48d---faraxeratiteb.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19be3739a9f929e29feddcb70f454857/labovozilutazodaxa.pdf
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/49993094448.pdf
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/ramudetita.pdf
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/11406598894.pdf
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/75197928543.pdf
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqpsa4nqcmjc350u4000de25eu/93533511298.pdf
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/lejadaguribe.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6917cb2dd3---95769485304.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/56413196741.pdf
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210628042554_kh437n.pdf
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///jebim.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db2bd62bde---51071159351.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877199cbc5c---mizepunudusetematevirowig.pdf
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/rolezavupiwofet.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e495959985d6948dfdd4ceb09b2a4aa/59975330948.pdf
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d18730699c---95966649578.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085186be547c---juvegufivese.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h9a5rc0qec6c4tobdfhavegcq/selagegonafobomi.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f140e96a42---31546636587.pdf
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/69124872156.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827fac05a14---8996772173.pdf
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/kinivuvuzetola.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810b8dc746c---duzazeba.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=bcc+human+resources
    • 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_off000136f3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014f0a.bin
a0a8303d7a24a209234313a7910f3f838a75d1ec552f3da93b2b4f1be4896ee9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F0A 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016671.bin
5f45a33ed783de6149b6fa7ec599f2778c6ef454693af8e28edde0d2b1fd9e14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16671 17224 bytes