Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adeceab99decf366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:04:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c0dd8642cde63fa3182f4ad7fde0cc9b SHA-1: 7b90d635745f6088e9ec37f9e5386ea0c61559b3 SHA-256: adeceab99decf366bc1d9050df955c48fc1d711a06e9b7d056266021bcc22b9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=el+principe+nicolas+maquiavelo+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/zovapomosefolofuponepatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c8783ff488bff5f1f0c4770ae0d9668/newenamonuwitixovasoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/zileleliforefekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c00b34ad8c---didem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/23028238718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/53220758156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626345948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriontradecom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7117523946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/13325082782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b3a1063524072acf522f8b16c0cd6a/kofubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/kemufujasufinazujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/81194659177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/nojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/kazexisejedaguzuguwatudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f348e0bf34---37879811809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/97369378376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/kefikilopanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/187f904800ca25fad9b43eb262e1aebd/zopunozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/32720281960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zuseridapemajexosafujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/masatuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beauty214.com/uploads/files/202108211211084587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/newodabidesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f62f58763000b73258c9668d80ab26/molexawajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/68946911731.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_off0000d928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD928 19264 bytes
SHA-256: 1cbf0222319d778119f23fa4bfdb7325dbfa635af73312b5addacc9506622c82
font_01_sfnt_off00010b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001237a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237A 11256 bytes
SHA-256: dc6a6962cc5836e7d4829a57164cb318e43fe7aad60fce4d8f6fcc94b2c1d232