Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ac9fddefc5366ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB Created: 2021-06-14 13:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bc18f851a2d46f076bdd7c8c3e72b419 SHA-1: 0f3480e99201299e7358d16f4c42b8bea0fb17bb SHA-256: 2ac9fddefc5366ecac717e69c4ca7807561a60a5e01e7c3f1964cad3b184212e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a high ML classifier score further support its malicious nature. The document body, though obfuscated, includes metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a book title, likely serving as a lure to encourage users to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=let%2527s+go+3+4th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6801a9635ccb5c953e2cf23478af66/40884833018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12166851366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4t3sbk0js49acddp51d0huaj7/dazukikokomusiwevepido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c601297ecc757871ab240f526094d5c4/2942111742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/57077701863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6259c7b4bf---libuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/67121001316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/ratugijarege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608258ac9f003---28575816604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afce4d110e3---gewopunebidogamuvejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h16rclru5ln61uirieaj4m1csf/waverovonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e67eccf2e6---kifuvojoriwaxezivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31akvvbmk2rqno6pm32onu840t/ferilavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b58f397b039---bapawizezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c17b933d7---97405114985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/bazoguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c59f20fcce---12120939389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB61 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 627da3d3af26a9e1bffae6372d0986e803b7130764d34f822baa40e0a7e8bcd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD29 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 426875dbf037bba11f53fbb03be8c942d9e0891c6aa34f418eb8ca1d48b707ec