Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad634e17378785a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 07ea9c02473738049de99cbcb70feeef SHA-1: ce0fc69dc80cc1c6b95152fefad7a130bee8dded SHA-256: ad634e17378785a9c2046c7d51ffb405ff0abe932bdd4463d75b99a00b60a5d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the nature of the hosting (compromised WordPress sites) strongly suggest a malicious purpose, likely to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756941098ef---40188395497.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/74062860560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/32702910406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f227dbb8a---53513784489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47jnppm8phvk8kdb351djqmlbu/polari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/74250789264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mulodisoxipamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721db82af93---66294846096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32137ec615---fuwumikajilujinelafake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/dafumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076da2ae5d2c---89977394114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a7dfdae43---1853593075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b0f380b3---99649971853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/81915463568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993121d98fd---14471584867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezapifopuxutamifokojovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0569d04f2a5248cac81fd54bfa77fe73/zorabodikufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609171f511291---47586087925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auljlg610g706ml6u02300koqj/62920950597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089473f1f491---52213445872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/xizobukatimofalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/44543670282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/nizanuxowulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a3e920a9b---94071207469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=industrial+networks+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7651e12bb7b5ba0d49c9b2a378451398/13213148270.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF742 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 032504bc1694439400ce6acf1059bbc09158dca2239729368b326cd1f3d366f0
font_01_sfnt_off0001100b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100B 18496 bytes
SHA-256: d8761ea27222a32211181a50384ac47c94ce813dfa3248625a6e7d572c93821d
font_02_sfnt_off0001407e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1407E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1