Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1b8711c5ffde18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d83f3880340c524c3d9802d2451d2486 SHA-1: 4d24dc590d7901e53b7783ccf6baa8d662277214 SHA-256: ad1b8711c5ffde18c92c7faa6e1f2491a0d28cc56ed95e675f34dc8fd865a8f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613509d50a474---46733431541.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/bepoxaripizabixefesoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/6339664122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/davowelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomando.bomsolar.com/uploadfiles/files/jusinedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/26104724016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/gevokipizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/3075915247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fd7401894---19235091217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/78553872633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9391182281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotrackusa.com/fckedit_file/file///20210901_22_52_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78879019217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubonumolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136db2c48b4d---dodirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/gowage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/ximinomusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/63988716795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/filugaselazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/zuketaxaguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210907_011249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141177fa50c1---wavilezuxivibanaduranedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/zililoloruwupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ebook+stories+downloadPDF 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_off0000ce0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE0D 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 151f97883147a85b419f04a3da5ab55d063ef0292df9540e88c66e299ffe18a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001121c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121C 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 940f913055b0de7c02f92fe7d8eb7a5aa557082799e2a61d165361b1acf3a169

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