Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadf1813e67db8b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: eae3730fb6cf135b37b8b51206adfd92 SHA-1: 112d3e71312e978b60a8ef9d2b2bd15ac678ef41 SHA-256: dadf1813e67db8b6b12b3b716a208b7dfd471716c1c64a7ba8273681281683a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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 http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a7a1376ea---batiwos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b8fea2d74---kitoduzurupilodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/wawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/93764562877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1rkir4b79qqcnhusmcujmi1bi/59735833314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f22393cd05fa7ba10521521f985c77db/kakadagiseluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dbea706fd98eebd138ad4b1fd945445/18499938609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/12553529622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/vezetalekelegogexupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de4b19c1a0f---vofipudavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cd1362316---kexigenumufowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9150d48123---wibagisawebawagaranetezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/lesefudibaxeboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28t4ldq3hfj8l5jep5qg681tbg/lipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9cedd0bd8---nazugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/35940011940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dde3970da9---weniromisanixozelijowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkdef4bkdufvdjaj6qrtkbunfq/42095698745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705124e84b6---begetalabejorerizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p528h7045ablvic35btblblkq4/57707162236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/vojutipumedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihaosjpl6oacsajdfq04ec68sn/27715970249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/tawidise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=unearthed+skyrim+puzzlePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C89 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 3ebd486235ab6c407a74d98ab9e1cf09d7661342c8c98090703f1c8ee3396579
font_01_sfnt_off000131f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 81b8535fc176ef0c64811e9adfdbc00be0f291621f3b1a18503abac71533c8d4
font_02_sfnt_off00014b0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001631e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1631E 17880 bytes
SHA-256: a47a9b3e23b2e6f43b8ec1c7f4eba193b361d4895459ab07710330427d42c8f9