Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 326012626f57c6ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:15:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1bd7b80de8fd69c13b9cdc206e910580 SHA-1: 7d47a60dad20d813d9ed8f59d9d6420e97df4177 SHA-256: 326012626f57c6ae23b65496c152118d64d96aa8959682b0b23e212c8b09407b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple unknown URLs associated with file uploads on compromised CMS platforms reinforces the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc72fe6c84.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210910134416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/86821635273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/14974737016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/dejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/90036050903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/22346268927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widijizuralifotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/92282286154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb3706dcf3---43723196488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137633757490---92408286281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/bewulijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/lezafunowaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/didilegoduvozufisofovimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/1578096851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiosalsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/wifizaxesuxatudevegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/40637067448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/kosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuku-zou.com/userfiles/file/dulelusiviwavelezenagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pulsekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69768801724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/40311165775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=google+app+store+download+androidPDF 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_off0000b4de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCF5 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c6068d9fd550c5c6295ca5a5b2d377ade1725d6943df3d76d249beb0af5c417b
font_02_sfnt_off0000e584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE584 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 0db3b5511a5368f1aa1140537380ae0493cc3b0d605eb4bc7538bd108eebc232