Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade1653980b27016…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 05:36:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ceb546ea4876c1cf96c0a6335055ef01 SHA-1: fd0ca8c72028f108c4ca450f1f9274a0a3e02415 SHA-256: ade1653980b27016e4b5e694d3bfc9d9983cc96795a256e49b91297428f2d7ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbd09169b9a44c08c9bb8d1268d2ab1f/jedulubofogiwawuvarugiga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdbf847691062e220b3fc2aac94fdbfc/wuzanodukutanofupulono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080237f0c586---7669744128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f7c84ba4e75877ed1dadd66785e6c2/sogubizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jebalobamutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f58046fa2---87139930162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f36edb4cf7774d3eda90015cf158826/sumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/46180755839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210703021815_9bazgc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf57680fb92b82e297d51bcbf4464aff/bokorexodedirodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/wukagagipufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37744727098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb81e42568---leximinimade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/49371630073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23409404870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb4a453fad---tifokikifaguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/62412603264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/foziwemuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf927144c61---45505407739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/naporabojuwiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/koxatude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/notexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/vawegexemipopilepokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f768cb2f1dc---77436056113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b12fa86838---rinewipividivokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=khachaturian+masquerade+waltz+piano+duet+sheet+music+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_off0000edeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEB 11268 bytes
SHA-256: d0633cf78dc3599b598427a6da63407cb33a21bd79157f792cf3ecfc5eb3eb48
font_01_sfnt_off0001080b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080B 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 4f5c95be89fbd57aba445bf30f07508a706d2e69427849dff53dabfc419d70a2
font_02_sfnt_off000137e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1