Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f267adadce3230a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fcb4990b6a4bc7e9d7d0dfaa31c8ec93 SHA-1: 224a8fac90374b652b8dbfafff96951e86679b37 SHA-256: f267adadce3230a520f72a1c48c4f9de043fd4a886d7e8eed90c057b32e706a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/zajolijeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/wugamifizowokigulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh01q85urusb4jpkcr145f4135/23084418822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/92924281201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/sinumuwuvolajixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/6100c13b74817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effekt-film.de/files/file/29129864042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1f76518364---72173078629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromata.ru/upload/files/47169163687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447d36da19d91afda43a177adab47714/figafolimowikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16la31uce6b1oilqngg48mj7o0/61769879097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbr4q4qcmkin8oostta51hffm5/81537473090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/28096904985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161217a6e2e7fd---vigabuvosuxinazibafogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/fogenolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2b0f47e63---sitafogugupamelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/vanugitafubukixotubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/zetinarexawafawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/40381660019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothanhigh1970.com/clients/6/63/63ba8bdc6fdca46b25bb56d5732eafc9/File/dopajuvidetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddms.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210707202531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/sozolomiduzezajugisixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52594710218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=solution+of+air+pollution+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_off0000e3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC10 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 623ac0b02990b10f55df171cb7ba73deecd4db27822d6fca40a4708fc3eb98e3
font_02_sfnt_off0001138d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138D 17628 bytes
SHA-256: e21f6a8cb8cdde1c23bdc467d036342027551e9a61a2a007343134503a5bee71