Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade5b5ef3916dc74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1b158dccc3e61d61425f7ff15bf527ab SHA-1: ed2a1f6bf3d243c0214db839d29b91b7f7d4d981 SHA-256: ade5b5ef3916dc7451bf88341ba0de4844d2ea469302d7d3621f6b3afb10ebc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest this PDF is used as a lure to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2a1c420ba9d82fa81de2c50714056c/229488706.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/31781596915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0de06d5uu5sgftds1f4j8d2j0/xutisijetepudokinajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a17r6tvr5ihecus3bdpqh9rq7/61506343969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/sodedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65848284597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20121030919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/sikurekudititabotulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/33701612351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97cc1a46612610f91570697aec5a00d8/31287255230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/48956906986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/11625946249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efe89e50ae---bexapenimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/sudigupavobofivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/labujinezuvafexujepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/52313858021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/30668260397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/toligisemelexavitalanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32f116be91---40278115544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b193dd94947288c35b6babf6176c2961/tegerabobajijobenugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/visexovorarana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/42991876047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s740f2ucihk3l4pg8ihb3bngga/vuvelowidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/75804437994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/jigavusofonojikafulupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=revival+of+the+magnetoelectric+effect+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_off0000fadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EE 19788 bytes
SHA-256: 062359702ee1d4ad1256b7a6b019ff360de964f3c6b70c5e5fbfed9eb6d3edb4
font_02_sfnt_off0001473d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1473D 11008 bytes
SHA-256: aff82276adc7c9ec3878fb9da44d8ff99b9b8c09ffc47b2a1dec1b2eff82ade4