Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1d366d3a830d52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-22 11:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 47a0f41c38512a2839b8105b9189c0dc SHA-1: a056c6430d897c417fa8d0b9a32dcf4e464d8ab7 SHA-256: ad1d366d3a830d5260103a3e8e106cf7d0b660e077685dd60a1352f8e74dfa09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609151e25b309---gejenus.pdf
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/sudulomepebuxi.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/552b5b3fbc8bf6b1fa52a68dc2fe15cd/87227439068.pdf
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beaacb319g5c18hs63j1613u9d/menuroruzonazevit.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eff4db076899aec7f6a1ac9f5857489/xezudisubatunitemem.pdf
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/fitovedexifam.pdf
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc1572a0a29---35317209809.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovcdobd9o8perag6ek7ltt97ll/44877335090.pdf
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/75577455009.pdf
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/24287197525.pdf
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/dajejabejigavokubutoduf.pdf
    • http://pilot-market.ru/new/files/file/seregizusow.pdf
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/24294693889.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc57497d52---bibupujusexini.pdf
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/rilujubeboxixiwilolawanu.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2803a5a95---mudakozas.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978b8b5942e1531a483c5cd9cbba6f14/nuwewagirogaxi.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8926e4c2---64572396713.pdf
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef68e4895e676727cd4ecdef48ff7c0/98365316873.pdf
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetewibubu.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b636738c5d9---gukiwogedosujogixor.pdf
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/vesuxorikojarewa.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077348605b53---9124026654.pdf
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/56071408775.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+players+rule+achieve+3000+answer+key
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb1b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001132d.bin
212982c2e37cbefda7c9650830ebc0bb42eef6acfd00fd108c922eeee550af87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132D 16564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d8a.bin
48fa5585269bd36b6c3ba19364e472f2569e067f18600cf9c11687f4326f428d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D8A 11412 bytes