Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7adfae4c532dab5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-07 15:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a03b6c2dd65392b4491ca106e0143de5 SHA-1: 4a02bd35007bc59dbc1b7ce6954e5fbc5e32f76c SHA-256: 7adfae4c532dab5b1dd97c3cbe040cbc614c3ae9626115bcacc415810dec66f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=para+selena+con+amor+libro+completo+online PDF link annotation
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/29070388626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846c523d5a---67557246381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6badc3dadee9d616ef829e137ed6e78c/bonerurobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8b1a75dfd---muteximuruluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9ef392415b3fadf3782274d7452dfd/71476220364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/50828363360991fa5b3ecd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56a5824523---gaxojiwerevikonekoxogewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/91136500007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e48964628---bavomimuwidofavekuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/jokanugigenewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9b58ec96e185b28b50f0e2caeb6bec/gedunitumisukadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/tavasurelaxuxogebonageje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb65dcc3a9---wedevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/65499713772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/28733241730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/65878595157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/musuvepupixisafokufapawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607289e7f0719---50490159131.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1F 5220 bytes
SHA-256: e8686f513ec824a1308b52b0ee179e63b301f921aa205ea009c9da1e3bea8b1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBD 2012 bytes
SHA-256: 992315b7afa541c246418d50ae298d4c0c52fa89e22a406eca06571bc34ece04
font_02_sfnt_off0000f565.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF565 10808 bytes
SHA-256: b9cd2e4d396bd7a91ff4cd7332aff3037f988699ce3d3ecc0f03e7b230c16f06