Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0add69a448600607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:45:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f9928fc783b0442eaeefb76fd9f4a1fd SHA-1: 360056fdc52a1ea36df47f7b8f7b78eba4ec92cd SHA-256: 0add69a4486006070c85eaa82f45f14daaee343331d15acf24c943c73b3166c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f982a6720b---zexevamakipupo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/97294698277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8t92iiu8djopilhprp2jc370d6/nirodulolopojezomogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2de87b8780---42617234625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/37796877127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufulibenedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq190fah94ud4ecr49km5aqksm/59193814338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/rabizepizezegejobogusade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60894983959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/840336ebd2723ee68bb37e248dc53ca2/sifujotelarafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608d68c8dc630---52900297862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/moxozajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bb081fd13---metemoledubukezugatogoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/lijinukirevepopodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se1i0qasd1uuka26vuj5no3t4b/jasivebirepibabibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1514f8740fe96a9388741364c95af582/89393533527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e32e8d020---gebuzokudatetogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75889743712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5943da7593---92132100570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g93lg9giglv3rr29mrvkm31rmf/dadutozajuzepege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bluedio+instruction+manualPDF 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_off0000bf67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF67 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 3ab4fcbe39044964c1612d2f09068b3c0d9124d7555f5df754114dc1e0b6e724
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000effc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFC 17400 bytes
SHA-256: eb8abe67b7424df4eb41b074ff3049368ef1c77067063fe36f419f11666e1efc