Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade69497871f87a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 22:11:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bf8f38a4888f11ba3ee1d8de60662433 SHA-1: bccfa18cbc4553ac2ea7c3736cb85d390cab5c65 SHA-256: ade69497871f87a0a1bf50a3ca19b0714793824b0129ac42438443896f1a2652
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 and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+similar+right+triangles
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610476a70fc3a---jolazisodolijewivuxagefuw.pdf
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/72457419186.pdf
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/64874101834.pdf
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093af68ea4fc---zobuzifilasirewivutojo.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe3ae303a8---95013623670.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af41aaa62b---50526261556.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65aa123bfe---68021664300.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vp836n7g4lkhtttufsiu64nac/6009188786.pdf
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/98735246397.pdf
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/50213846325.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428f6378dc42779c4f61739b0b6774e4/38312077831.pdf
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/guvagurawufeta.pdf
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/6158006375.pdf
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/xopetudu.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7598b80c43---80773218430.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8e5fbf1bfa95261773964ad79c4eff/wusetuwawusixivu.pdf
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/58025904900.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767cca379ae---gijobujaji.pdf
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/36280193349.pdf
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/buganolulilixuk.pdf
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/93011446160.pdf
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/91093599413.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5dce6f7b9e854922ba9a6d1c281370/91336732629.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3cd2d27477---birobokovodafumifilodale.pdf
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/liwogafiwo.pdf
    • 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_off0000ef2d.bin
d2798a0630c8394b98bf3a74d3a63587d6f9e7134c7b0de58ac1b41cd982a699
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2D 17948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d8d.bin
d66b71cb78e7ed5f0f0a14b17fac268bc70d872796f2c318ef7fbf48534646c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8D 10880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013645.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13645 16792 bytes