Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf200f610785fc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 13:30:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9c2aeec067577c4f7a76cac30ebc31bc SHA-1: ce766e6f51b8693bf2b4d01635d7c7ae54c4a241 SHA-256: adf200f610785fc9095f65bed4e773f36f41dc2ff06e8316133afa1d612eebad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ba88a8ddc---52404938504.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae9b03ca3131a3a710fc111d4b71c315/20229210933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b34da295c5---fezekafadilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci4j3a1pii2mbie98aut2nek64/gidibojimonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd34f5d4fe94703ebc1ea2ed6f709fc/82816908592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f379abaed0a9494c5c1861fc2ecbb0/mital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210614063218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/17621185335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c69de167ecc402d9663f0d3bc8293c4/nukitegovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805ed08c4b8---jekofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b228e1e5f9c---70778703916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47d26cc219---46616375460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/45094313524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d07d61d14---gixisalasawubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/kotunegamuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725b1ce2266---73689882076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1c5b6f3ac2---90853301837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e1b41797c---84467411192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cb07930c4---62257917208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/72058314464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/21679353661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/64880597103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/465b16bfb8c666d99fa309d6824f0c79/18830534662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/panokuramagizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/28355815759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb0c9440ca---towigalovokivilolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42101ea84b04fa8f2411ea0b4715b898/49249201655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=which+set+of+accounts+below+would+have+a+normal+debit+balancePDF 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_off0000f647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF647 11124 bytes
SHA-256: f67e2bae5578ca74c999854a65d8dec3bb92750440a9fefdf83b55e99a2e1565
font_01_sfnt_off0001101b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101B 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 2df28046eadf183e8799bbba90348d3997985b138575654af7e3683450b66d25
font_02_sfnt_off00013d63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1