Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232a4dd30864e155…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 20:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a76cbc58c7c262ce620d1b8faa59298c SHA-1: f6e23282e4583a6837b83296b488243924c47fd0 SHA-256: 232a4dd30864e155d8cec66820a14de21e4eb354570ca00071c686d39bf579e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a focus on external links and potentially SEO manipulation for traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6ba8c670f0---10739421252.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772d2fc0554---21409541776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43e53e8348---kimagidufivasurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/60490933893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697261529e4e76bde23c4bd6a4885b62/90835983852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/jojawosopusaliwereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/luwuvagimavomozezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/88928683553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///nidofuxofesigugofefadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c36e3361f8---bilaxabawususomilonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r3eclu0n3mai3hc62jftae1id/56061787112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gaq7lbth0ev48nt60l7dfus2pp/14194849964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/701a11da433cb0a5df6af8b594ae7ee8/razorixuxivumisimigifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba78b4818e5c55dcd0691f6692d9b968/pogonavutonulufosofoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ea8ff25e6---69377631829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/99028084561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buravijiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9ad92b34a---gibojinigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72e40ada50---lajugurosofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28573368052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34618aa59c77e6c818cee4c5bc654a55/wapewujedotanenuxerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/vivugitapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b630fbce6ec---xumetevoxetofupovafiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/zofumuwuzemezijizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17c78c320e---gujibexipilalosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4082535a8---37765518002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=blood+type+abo+and+rh%28d%29PDF 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_off0000eaad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAD 16372 bytes
SHA-256: c940770ac1ef8d721292aad8a9afc61ff49545c34b51165f74b58ad188bf5266
font_01_sfnt_off00011523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11523 10692 bytes
SHA-256: b974c5245e9a914efae28e598de572e3cc4078e82be6edf962b24a347975ce4c
font_02_sfnt_off00012d89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1