Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade7bda3b7889872…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8e1828c69edaff1e86026cb0dbf94a72 SHA-1: 78e0670a7bad86c5289d8adaf91dc52d997b2092 SHA-256: ade7bda3b788987274b80578ee062953c871f3897d4e3cb70cb1c1b014f8cefa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=100+aptitude+questions+and+answers+for+freshers PDF link annotation
    • http://therealmccoyfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f9/f9ea119420dddc0cc5ac7622830b9f68/File/kopinewimeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/50602205187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/ridajulivufetomonuvibema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7022bf695---18212604824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/37889252540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21596124845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/66418494449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/xejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706b1553e71---zagedagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cccb7ed1284---52509108039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/63243042565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/reririzarefatuvapeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8dc118a1f9c690c41e3ee48f7d3811/53783229369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/80573670108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/dawaradaxasifuwowuzasepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/46618157180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/wijibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf1197cfdc69146c25ca236da967570/14088361113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/wizijisinusebifubejusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/22975743127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43dc861b17136070dd93b5b5bd1e6f0/gefuxojavaramedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b004629b63---54784482503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c8b23197ceb7bb14271bf4ecc008f6/94305768679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/sipajujag.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_off0000eb72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB72 18024 bytes
SHA-256: cdcc4479a61ae09f90e39d3e48e626af87d082d33c36f505309b0840aa100f9b
font_01_sfnt_off00011a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4B 10956 bytes
SHA-256: ffe848596ce16cb02e6ea1215e8dcc9cda23ec9e49564f00c192bad35b36706d
font_02_sfnt_off00013388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13388 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1