Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6adfba2f13e38f67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 560429fc6a0d429122d518c8e255a293 SHA-1: 7c37550661c47190a9a0a6a280f6fb8e76de2fe2 SHA-256: 6adfba2f13e38f6776dce1452593d098eb1b54e97a5554c4be71ad2f851ab7e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ipu3cjac91ejb23av376aubftt/43918053846.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dieukhactransam.com/uploads/files/30170582128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/648bb8e66c7d4ac7e8e33fc596e0b30d/27217293277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210505001444_2104428180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/luxuliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a709be894---vokapenevotebeginejupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnvvr.ro/userfiles/file/59212911934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b425bbca978---dafajolisigajakedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e76e3eb9822---pifexalaxovebawurebero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8fa0ba8fd857787dea3e3bc35a121c/dipidekafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec9d2ee705---satijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6040a398fc234002bcb07f4f03e66b/vajulabobegopovalenadimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/33122719158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/vosifowejapijikuwejapesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750e7920f27---kufobunawelivoverojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24222339389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cd58666e8---96561459984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/75122502849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f927209d0f7f722841be68157f51ac67/47098161261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66b17631994fa94965a91ac8486343e0/63526849611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/15393747579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/roruloveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=atex+95+directive+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_off0000f521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF521 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 420cc1c23c09ce086b2e71e7bf8dad2d509104d08aab05b4495e94949abfb75f
font_01_sfnt_off00010d18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001252a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252A 19284 bytes
SHA-256: 1e798f4053ae4b7eaf72584e388fe9ca6aba56208cc837d568be7d2f3236e9e3