Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade6c0c638540fa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:21:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 27f53bb06e07d345819e87f772e40e8d SHA-1: 4041998235f95aaa28f180847dc922ea09acdde9 SHA-256: ade6c0c638540fa0e069655065ef903334f4cbb1090ea98eb6235a453d218d47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+gba+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/79062579982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45891557523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/908229763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/zisokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/99352123581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/xudobisinobarabasabuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613248a450d18---dalaxovafawibililenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/rulavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanta-life.com/userfiles/file/86448020742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e55b8ff392f19c0bd402130383d3a52b/nisuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/49202770971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c09d4debdd25fa7ba24c56222d91b5df/nejebowogumajepofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/51358767244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/73839552996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentianssjp.com/userfiles/file/bajixuwipabinevuzaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/duromedovutotosowabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/xiforej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7v8c1al0356irnrme0a9dl9o3/60337569254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnt2kgfb14pa3g6obtsodnu9dv/61911379192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbhdom.eu/userfiles/file/17190046642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maffart-guy.com/userfiles/file/sagerowaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acp-luxusingatlanok.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daraxilolaralireja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karidagonoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juluronubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/rupowawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD879 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 20f6ef77bfacb845fca51fab365b4d9981c944a9ddfaf98eabf716724c7b7870
font_01_sfnt_off0001052a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052A 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 6c11760c4d83342edcef5e779fc35f2b52066b0bc43baf9f30123b5944c2be26
font_02_sfnt_off00011c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1