Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade9acbfcbbc8d6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c4e2aa39d7a1ca24a1c145146e8a1eb9 SHA-1: 3d3f6f2750f1739be5d7e7b93f01f454d8fcd075 SHA-256: ade9acbfcbbc8d6a67e27e3fe5d48bf84a423edadf9e69b0731500a11f738512
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546ad3153f2e89db81425180b260f1d1/wajuzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/juvebifasaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/fuvunizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/kipejefejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynotary.ca/sites/all/sites/mynotary.ca/files/raxisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-24/20210524181721696453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f6999fa9d---mulinafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/datodakivokokuxajaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/riwudolujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///noluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuanhongkhang.com/upload/files/nawadapokalotodenobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toicodonlyson.com/uploads/files/teforiwinavafopuvepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/96858097175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf9abe9829861187648efce96ae8469/67828612704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/kimobojetuxiregokene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/59053182111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0538712e---90446867518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67rbupubl2474jm8k3kekf2ing/dumagomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608492d802987---89251523090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/3990091838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/kiduxemewane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94vmrf9ls4eadevd5po7kg91fi/fifedawuxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a2276e06b87c5b6ac6c3042435119c/wukeligomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/kesoropomasuwitigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/64671479805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+become+a+good+speaker+in+english+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_off0000c60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60C 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 1d22f78cd867fab8fe8415fc99d00ce32ec89905af2209caf4372e0eb169bc48
font_01_sfnt_off0000e035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE035 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 75e162568030041687b11a8f55ccc8b87e1286162b51a3574a90b80ef4cf8ebc
font_02_sfnt_off0001096d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1