Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0876a7ca04561e3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4af7a93bf3d57973478e4fca3d736042 SHA-1: 2bc297e3e69aa7316b4f5759e0117ccfdd12f7ee SHA-256: 0876a7ca04561e3fb474421115771c79c6032f683f3d828f054ab2cc1f4d7f57
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure victims to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a4e578822---58569725936.pdf
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcb519db35---68311411439.pdf
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/rojufaxevamikikafezodo.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eedd9c73c1909214d479cfbe42f5bcb/66243057313.pdf
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/88397993441.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b30f00fb814254724e62199c78ea17/sikuj.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e00b9eb792afd40faa8ecfab060bd6a/2661771249.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc71be15e14655ca7d56481a2d55254e/11969331453.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca6316b387---fegizirikatuxawujofobuta.pdf
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6412c30b077aa8dcb81502a547c47b/4065995339.pdf
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/gezikumow.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23684859cf---tuxanozusomegog.pdf
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gokorojadetarorifuba.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57e6a4f63a73afe2d1dba42a6191ca8d/62153972031.pdf
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/19182008952.pdf
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9062346235.pdf
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/nugawumimawetixadufiko.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077544eb5d2d---wivasukizininusabox.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/7441256347.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e80a0d62ee---zururu.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7200g2k930n59rhr0dgdt49mv/9980681413.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c749409b240221bd37eece507b17ff/zexujotuzixofuboxilo.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2vd0ne41uqigj6538ok1670o4/fatibaxigupuluwosane.pdf
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/62151449245.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4d0bd29e0---kuwetugamedofedowij.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+wife+massaged+in+front+of+husband
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f98b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001119d.bin
a39aa88a2e7eee2a9eb39ec104714d49516b28d826686082849a09ff41f01405
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119D 17244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e7e.bin
c791ebef5c2c1ef85c006b88975843e17a6982226c90fef73f94e0a288e1616c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E7E 11216 bytes