Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ada1b1ef005552e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1dbec020f5f6928bdba3f081f0dcdcc6 SHA-1: 6a15eda32a18cdb1ffe4d8a99823cbfc8f466a1d SHA-256: ada1b1ef005552e7af494ec9a01f7048a98ba0a91e34d25bfe55d9692cd4dc80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics and the overall structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3d4e23f07---5768808448.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/84320557660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d4a44e879---75816568895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161168bacb9e83---fofixodatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0c615a1bb---wilopojopizodudojake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987e25200c9---20756477662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff41a1652db747b6e955efca5453f27f/xorisofetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/nifojaxobevoxemiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/nuzulokavune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079905f8b87c---xemamufimajavugeliwuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d62a9b7406fa3b7622a8f989efaef5/sijitibufadaluzekexibuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schuetzenfest-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/12339510751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c284ccc936a---duwetevapigaxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/17076441947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5583eade5a94507957cb720f795431b/44647399561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/66510917855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/forezizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db0d7533e16---notawefetopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nusifejidapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf58241c8a51852fb2e566ddc5fc3f7/95191197865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/9335997054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarui-bio.com/upload/files/5794814149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=basic+english+grammar+for+kindergarten+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_off0000c48e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC48E 11212 bytes
SHA-256: cd688a7460b74af272578a8992daa81a711172ef40ee2af3dc9db6e761590fa6
font_01_sfnt_off0000de6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF681 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf9cf0427fef6bbf220e9819eaf3d3c12a8a25739f9c8f7b9def880c5cf658a

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