Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dad948d196ccd851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 23:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f10c4a09a89a16ef7d6d7b95079c6149 SHA-1: 3013b9951962698bb41abe00afb29c596f216150 SHA-256: dad948d196ccd851609302645a3ca0d77d466aac1ee0c5950a6a7446f24435fe
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads or raw IP addresses, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URI patterns are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210918_171329.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24068489499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/4963221600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jodisekubirixotejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents/files/jefomuzejelilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://explosivedevices.ru/media/file/1457823542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimilabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/sejonipifunokomuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/27995613115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilcfcostruzioni.com/userfiles/files/88770404301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82343892323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-oita.com/admin/upload_filesfile/fulawidezedejoxebifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/wuvagekojifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/49516620241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ps9ebj7u7dj1eij1g6htlpue/senavatunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/61098833190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a75fc127057d6d4bee98f4d2b92ba540/kuwagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/45593912078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c08f827a3d2d81fc6dddd32125e7761/kebuvefojopepajemopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindtrainingsystems.com/userfiles/file/75232241103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshiou.com/uploads/files/202109241529292977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxozebevenagopilisozowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/wamopubozesaviwudisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhremhoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/dunasofiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021092011315975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e02bb79648---fogedixuvivepibidetidubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=bike+unchained+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB744 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF5B 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0542604381c773f85e37032ae3a0627170d7e1dd6b7ec6e51e5fc3f765b0ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000e75f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75F 17160 bytes
SHA-256: c63a1a215f6aaf413e07929dd2a46602593b41aeeb24a0fe938d641195135166