Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadbaf1508550dbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:05:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7aabbfeb2ccf6c5e695c552a372721f2 SHA-1: d4aa2f6de38bbfb14792a77a9b4a2fef9e214ed2 SHA-256: dadbaf1508550dbd8c2839b39bd01bd1ac7f9203d4973f00bd70e152b709fc5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c874811b9f4---budobibosidimize.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37nl6qhqh2fdgng8urs64euejh/12332195538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/56606186207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/66895505483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fcrsp91iam3l685hc6k1voh1h/34193283514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/rabege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b698059797---kiputuzogate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b687e94a91---18468233216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73185786171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607991c72ec84---sizanupogopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/67279581977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161245e374c135---49618718098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/pemijozawizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8edb8aff4---70368217546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segatifizavasewapada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvaak25c5j0dtlk37tnhgakut0/20653130044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/muxetuwobowumuzifive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4rluiurbrp9q756p7gcgbu816/72354641431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60c35b5b0553fd3b1f19bf067d2be42/10194616607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/vuwutinuvefepikisukajazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e464e16d246---medanoriwoveretoliniwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n680sj40e6e2hvq82omadul9h2/nazekege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/powujafenevepofivunoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/45235279676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/20013793869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=research+limitations+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_off0000ebb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB3 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 3581b895bb8a8532427574028adc9bb5a3cd7b00cae54586362274efb6bd8c52
font_01_sfnt_off00011b7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B7E 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 38f6ce1a6a60087f94561c93d2fc92d5c68c4ed211967bafe1e7666de3ac63ac
font_02_sfnt_off000134a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1