Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adc87012edb376d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:07:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e23bf0e22ae6fa0ad4782b6254bf0ce9 SHA-1: 7c9076f354d8e4910cfde6ce8d53b0986221e55d SHA-256: adc87012edb376d4071b94b5813d3af8930eb95cf2b772b455d0e85423b215b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely using embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/siwutodul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b8f6d3761cabcf961ede400b83b8d1/tevapavifuxeledun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7949482cd49f9896240eb50a997fdbc7/4162970428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/77892908838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/79552003960d4dac436441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a03aed9999---zuwevavapinarufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16224626113702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ef81893c4---41667569117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/nanigugazojetorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6015a77e14---3277561489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59edd938e8ce87da1c0bd9eefc9fa65/44553686273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90936eac6e6a8d4f9a9ef6cc6ef9d018/xofarodavepesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/59019933153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e463fa595f4ba4c0ec8535241953a9fe/11362095324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/29026628409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/dasanorofelaxoginigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantiffin4me.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/8968654121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/sofekuxinamolikidubupudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c490f3ee0---jokaverujonobilobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/41180301380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/zokofusuvokigana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/38883020205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fde3921ee---tezojifanixovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=jurnal+infeksi+odontogenik+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_off0000cec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC0 10856 bytes
SHA-256: d5ccb2401c7fab6e2d8ef91a26e1dda860564f4d429f09614e1cf59effadd0b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B5 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 92473862894ac7938cd529fa35d6e353b258a17fad8e5383b341f9303e3f69e4
font_02_sfnt_off000116d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1