Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf29ab28370aa80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:04:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6a66f2f309363bf46232bf0d23ab7466 SHA-1: 13f90552580ed9f0a6368fe74c167cbd6222a9d5 SHA-256: adf29ab28370aa806e7cf7059c9a3e38890ad9219ccb5bd5e582821f79a445a5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious content, likely involving exploitation or redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fad74d52597---84978601278.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2b4d3199f---zulevururenedutexufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608315b33a285---rakavonamixibuwuwuzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/18595602510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/romubune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/gibanagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/zagogobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/41909175590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/61668113996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpr6aht6c7aicdushrub9nt2nu/21717471167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/3473966399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210714074518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f136392f7---7683215356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf2k0iega222l63a4pb1qjqjm2/8183358168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/lebogiziwatodonuferize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00de2fb008570d187cf852bdc871b875/xoxitojujelupokosumijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4888758747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_BE81AC67D8EF5DE0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/75123400490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/99994330417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydis.kr/userfiles/file/240438271693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31qe6qh6ko9j2vpmorbt5krk60/56725063427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuathietbi.com/upload/files/vizezujuparopuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/68874048656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xanoroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lobibapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=maths+tables+from+21+to+30+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_off0000d34d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34D 17692 bytes
SHA-256: e1ce8bf37c3f5d2fc9567e2cabc68240287d8db21e00b6b752225e94cae32521
font_01_sfnt_off0001003c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11853 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 101fac8c964588f6b8713fa1738b390d8703561c6ee5c7f94352384a68495e9e