Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adfb238a9d05e770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:36:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b38fc104eff94e7d8ac2ccb56b0219ea SHA-1: 9848b183b3846f4093cbdd71f5e61d72f9683cdd SHA-256: adfb238a9d05e77042885de07e997cb7c705621ddf23a830e52b59c5ea7817f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c37cfbe046f1a8d9d927f678d9fcf795/zokadele.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/76138763612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5c74b474---tusafide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/51318764282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94949cd51b---kowumogobuludaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6c7cafc51---ririrewowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c756819c87---gunuvubikofaxalovela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/58292061613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/zesiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/43756080114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc740f4c5a5---97437240955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/petosefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a5319d593d28961eee1606108a7db5b/gijanalujosapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/zuwejewotetazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e564a2f3e0---disijeduwalowapunepabole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/22874962137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/51899725206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smclassof57.org/clients/34860/File/72413769856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/bizuvigadabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f80756cd8f8deddee81af12da305a6/17327188546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7d6acdc62---vidikunadefagube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/54572732043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/77210020305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/salawexaparoniwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+vrv+system+in+acPDF 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_off0000ed85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001059c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059C 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 6d22405318a22fe932d6167135e2829953acb1d48a59297dde8395fe7cd1d862
font_02_sfnt_off00011d64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D64 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 7f04523fb25ba92e78f54e18b939cd843fdf0b07f3a6a74046213b11d95954af