Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad04d98e4c3c1ac8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:58:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7834cea6b785634c9c96065f59bc2248 SHA-1: e5638e953ad7134e16e7687f2af458e8efbee52a SHA-256: ad04d98e4c3c1ac8684eab5414b3aa42b1bc7c04da2dfb2d2ad7d62fd003e9ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda3cbd85bb4cf1a1aa02fecb0384861/21014388052.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/mifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowdertraviscoats.com/clients/7/74/74ec8bd2877f4db8d0b9f56bae0111c3/File/89951442705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fdbf3cee78ecdf0fb7290254bffa038/10499474081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vralumni.com/clients/7/71/71e0d721b250bdad3664bf54e70089ab/File/vokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdeb3de97e---60094138499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro6s1ballnjbu191ko9gl4khi2/22848933597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86306797766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/51073281508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b429367d03---24533592656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia//files/52987325927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15b462739e---89819104516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ea780b5dd---51668885251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesabodovelerubazowemito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8c193741366fe6118dc705f58487da/vubajonetuxagowuvozabojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa648d034d9---volot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed04b7593074430be26fbf950371812/migudobaguzavinimezixewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/lusujawafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/28003153021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/nofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d128ba142---43236275505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e0ffeeb1047ef939da9f79387d4a68/geresaxosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/76058431798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/35984598320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca56b4854a---21929011266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gun+cleaning+instructions+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_off0000fb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB57 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 9a057dae6900f44a20061140aaad241f9a404c31711bf8c37ff76e059ae7beca
font_01_sfnt_off00012657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12657 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 488c35aa42ca1e4050e6a65fd47ddf3b66375b1aac1175d898fbbb1eeb1f4a91
font_02_sfnt_off00013f9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1