Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ad367ae2368ab99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-05-29 08:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0b6771dc68f7b55fa1efc072e17c31c3 SHA-1: adcb94e74e44101e667d0fcf8681bfd3b14caca0 SHA-256: 2ad367ae2368ab9903f9f79cd7ded6ebfafc189a0733d4d06647d79188164b51
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains embedded URLs and is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The document body, though obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'English bulldog puppies for sale', likely a pretext to drive users to malicious links. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting further indicates a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+bulldog+puppies+for+sale+in+pa+craigslist PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f0ff1f0a435712cb9f9a41a04468ac/37254931761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ihif0r2dhd1cd3a9jbstc685/vuranotodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/721f95d88620929c12bc81048697bc17/11720336141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2c0mv0am2cooqvemnj7obsa62/widuduredilovumukatonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a44bb4fa8---buzove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/xukesitenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e53f7c2fd4e81cd1fb94a7808ee003/jumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381c63a2135f592f27c11c48e321cf48/39686540667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iip0m80l5sj2ljgku1dn5q3oq6/36617669548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/15090895445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee5282757d58fc43f457ce00e25ffa4/59341465012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/nakatafoguvosano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15562ed44d799f3d2df2fe4af662fa63/94321756777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e456081f30---46746951022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609260dc3d7ab---83176775064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u014s97bmt121t736et5jjrf15/25527672594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/37188434816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AF 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 0615c2a0e4ad9d8cefb4df8da8a54e96d7d43feb05cf5993a0fcd9a612ebd704
font_01_sfnt_off00010561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10561 13176 bytes
SHA-256: 2145317610f68077c7fb4204094b414d4384dfbb06557fb218d2ce6703038b31