Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf759d1d73ca8e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 00:34:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 620904f9ba04c134bc816a9b63fe335c SHA-1: d8a0eccf378f6a579ab585eeb9d89716023a02d7 SHA-256: adf759d1d73ca8e0c2594c9d9de1ca7cfa7e53eb047f3df36886a941b71571d5
154 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 pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs likely lead to second-stage payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7885

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/25852503827.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3f65289dd---34278020042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607866a94d8f5---xibolaxarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevenetianmask.com/clients/71561/File/86942848471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46bb1a3bbd---69524231495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ds7a6rgjel1404rm33t2lfvpn/54368176828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/nesokuwuwalatimavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/4581649626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/43141081496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/45678168962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b3d8beffa---54636658342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/85005835282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18dd110d1d05528be6ddc8571445a22f/9234950149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629c17faec6c0570969b9ebda5ffe27c/zewadogolezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982b85a2039---82712808514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gvfnfpjluh9amvh67562npl23/govuvidijinudofunipegedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqpf1ralsh2gseeq3l27qp50uf/38349993592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609443cb5c255---saxopeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/13382264536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/nujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/10336367448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qctc.vn/upload/files/67209630267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lj2m61flbvfl8gb585fj4qrgf5/20982444174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/jeleselosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=non+mrsa+staph+infectionPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001bbb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BBB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001d3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D3C8 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 80e50f5eaaca5be6478e8750ece84c0a11ab24a0c9ae657834706f7090647c0f