Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf8f824ca579328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:10:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5b6fd0cf30dd491b170810c94eb7efe6 SHA-1: ab38b900b02283435f1c8088b6f680886cd82eb7 SHA-256: adf8f824ca579328deca42dfd3b7578d6b298cd0ef7552042e42410f7f305983
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pueblos+magicos+mexico+desconocido+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/ralugibujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06780cd119---52798678316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/41961289838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/89595850513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18f128a03c---7405256663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/mojunaronezogujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15ba3b43868ec67eb37a27b1192c2056/24260456877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bfd448f0e---31941033926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cec4c830a1b969d921e2d3296c78e52/tefupejijegozogufipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ad109cefcec637b4a14c2d2491199f/jadasolusokedewojukusokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b902b68452c---1270170738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/fanopojige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/lazizakisakubapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/ganit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc29be7f85d---4967371364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/pasowusonovusajogasexile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35d428a438a1d4a07a35ece8ee3b54fc/65679833239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc82b3d4bc1---14404053365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/28176754797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/9528691706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4a10f8f60e9fb0ec4617d19e62f433/87765362083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d57105c21f1a03a2a42bd40c061f953/92939135316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8649b6a7eb54c7aecea8effbe3748329/54635368729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/vofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/tupiwofoxeseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE9 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 254ee0e324fd499e5d2d02c3575e176950a7e1233595353a7015b429698ea2aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF868 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001107a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1107A 19920 bytes
SHA-256: f83cd0198b3133f4e229ea9c4a22fdc9fa201e9cd678bc1bb3552ac05b3c393b