Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dad0fb5fda5d6a7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6b06b7f2669eefa07480d73f623fd057 SHA-1: 16c4de7fc9c11a478c061104d7dcc34b1c10bd0e SHA-256: dad0fb5fda5d6a7ea64cd227bef1f24fabe4f400fef3338b5e76d8a7671b7f6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sunny+leone+full+hot PDF link annotation
    • http://thrifthelp.com/flash/thrifthelp.com/file/47536218906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krajkarka.cz/userfiles/file/bujogoliwebuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamecoast.by/uploads/files/74845758610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/71447994293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d986eea9e---nolajufugaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icf-plant.com/files/file/dewewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/sobega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/jawewilapapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/46788113978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9032il3e4avlpmdv6okg5hm6f/jadezejunesotulopupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/10377003774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///bilukelopejizesajazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5210424055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/37239983803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://materialdeestudo.top/userfiles/files/6641624775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22391c66689ea92e4a689135d06416bb/70633362497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/55347878626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/bibejadumukagamutosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nafowozudaroxanepeliganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazycakes.com/userfiles/file/37466888854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/kisamoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/jizafamalapivames.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_off0000daf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF309 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3381837c4bfc47c0f4b2530a2bfd1760f519cfd238c47a382b6990ad3e0e76
font_02_sfnt_off00010982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10982 17748 bytes
SHA-256: ef5773693caddc9228f5df9ba830660bfd124f5e90cbc38652fcb1da5bcc4d92