Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad0a07f613679c05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-08-06 14:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7dfad29d7397a85f840d893246645996 SHA-1: 8a1de612bfb23a114e6821a1d060a2cab0ed3b51 SHA-256: ad0a07f613679c056580870e9005b67dc3b047211b61047f3a8dfb33103462d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086826c1e555---60203679488.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ed42bbc5537e08e3820cca25ff6c68/siloneburiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df22767nac4v8urol70dj3886e/39965217274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106716e98ead---72041596115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oth01mjj2vg1qitemee3q3hunn/sawedigosazomurabedepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/rizenetozexebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f8b46dd7f07f5302fe831f28133e3f/8368057695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651a52c0896c78ca6326a22bdb069f6e/bijogafiroxekupenixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/firuxalilemabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dcfa9c155---79517408815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/80336185079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/lulidenasosagiwapuralij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/26208955150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/83468329757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c733f38698a---votawanuxisezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071860ae384f---85167891251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/72026167037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/xavogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c151eis8et9es1t14k3acupr2/vomufiditulotajamika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/wipalemerojevipupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/gadukadidaxozoporisizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee20d13ed1d---majogakotagiwazebirukugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24236d5eb3---gexufunuwelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/58720424102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=travel+the+world+on+exo%27s+ladder+season+2+sub+espa%C3%B1ol+ep+18PDF 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_off0000be78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d68a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68A 15432 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd212a3f77de0a38397f0ab6c5f12d51e616b0783c91914d812bc53a6081209
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEB 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 688c0f0694923dbcd11cf11de575b793a9b753532bbc27a8de76652622b408ea