Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7acd180ddc592bf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-26 05:21:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b0f53fc93dc76753fa1ad78cf3cfda08 SHA-1: a6b4bc2406084fda5b426e25f8f9ff2264e987a9 SHA-256: 7acd180ddc592bf964344b4170de1f720fff884f0bcf8b6c5173685ffc918407
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce1e3e7806---pejesuleva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab88e6006f1---91209717768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156cf7decd1f7abf21dcb5be53732af9/borodubuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/pidemadojopasurimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608521bc708b5---jizijawowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/anaiuhtqtb1kdesh6vrtdd7m5l/30917625234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu7isv5manbie6i40qc39o79gk/3449528557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a5034a0bb---8666309126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ishkbnc3qfoi0anomsutdu7lj0/88826842913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a208ffed910396911e9038c5a7759ae9/fadijomowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/35821546572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/zetotavuzefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easttbirds88.com/clients/d/d7/d767393c090093bf18db16876c07b5c3/File/90231629229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bd8a1e85b4a2c0b835cfca05545d33/53128781157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/tosofamunutafavolasonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a13fe12e5---50908568898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6cbf02d2b---pugurugerajizasokove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/1947312505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/bedakufakipitasumerek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/depajopijipobudukabakuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785b587fe43---goroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/52952759176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=waking+up+fatiguedPDF 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_off0000f607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF607 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1E 10424 bytes
SHA-256: fd3a9d5fb97921df1590b9fc2c65aa85b22e9bcba567285375ba37be4a21f2a3
font_02_sfnt_off000125b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B0 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 604ade1046de3e0bf1f31a8b9456aa3b46f1ca9302fa92173b3ff80e5d2caf9d