Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dad56e8f1a763d2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 19:33:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1ed6907bb04e5ef0f15f1774a7eff778 SHA-1: 791292eed865a75607cb75ffc9f56b0001174806 SHA-256: dad56e8f1a763d2f7178f1e468a882346a9e09e0a5b1500688911662947ba7a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, further indicates potential malicious activity, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+fatal+signal+11 PDF link annotation
    • https://safecampus.in/cmsCart/upload/file/96350616031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenalisatixewimavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/xegodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632c1185c4c0a44a483b78a99ad2c051/80976083499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/korovowuzubigavumitasigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30754925302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/6059398946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d0594a7a92f33b2830bb9aebd15c8e/sizenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/66908397013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/94158102703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aluminial.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37969384312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigomimaxanizifatobuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/21828267303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriplan-rs.com/dados/ckfinder/files/gukakivekirupunufegosinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1c85aaeff7b606d40809ab2e0f61b3/tolifutolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613040b843229---8427822646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae335b30c4---71837156605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/kufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jufakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/14938799347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57433941034.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_off0000beac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEAC 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 8813ede960d2d567116c25d05b2c579e1aafad202d88c88bcf8dcef09f9c3893
font_01_sfnt_off0000d63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63A 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 3f57dec5d62bc5e4c754ceb963c8e85d508cd168ccf1e5f8ccf99e5408f4bba3
font_02_sfnt_off0001035f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1