Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 883acf0c552d16f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:31:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aed7d044c9de9a11bb2094e092dd1e29 SHA-1: 2e6351adfa01bef05a9ff5c8e37b541059712456 SHA-256: 883acf0c552d16f894ebb03361a0081a79c788020a955db51ef2848755fffee4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c7bd931f7---91415346583.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afae80250ac---madarekowupadakivuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ac72b88a9---buzusamimuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/nulodebavunalezovatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/dulujinovelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a36fc64899c629fa11da2c3ffbf7019e/39994767648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b37b81fea932b8600bed63e133affe1/55763673243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eis-pieschel.de/UserFiles/File/45986765907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782b8707547---nuwogedokuxezamimomitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tidudininuvesomebazavisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f262602bf70246458e8576ab3edc38d6/xetutiniganafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taybaite.com/userfiles/file/76576804107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgbfcji5u6tno9oh444sp637lq/50477856271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16a6dee1e2216e9b1ed8ad1703f39dbc/780427802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760e3a81370---48321113768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/33336470742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/jexajegogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/sakuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a569197a316---dalosebokenawekosoraroxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/begag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e11d5f64b---17024662179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/giditewojurajagexupuvukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdfd6050b80---wogumadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16207789908987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/leribomakufazanifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+lucario+smash+ultimatePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7d7c2cc6e45a2909682096e2cd48ee/92167306276.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://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_off0000f235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF235 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 6db901a88bffff60bf3bffd2e80b866aae279ef9b69367df51421ee4d935fd15
font_01_sfnt_off00010a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5F 18908 bytes
SHA-256: bc6e6c9cb860471f99f37a975e9fb95686a4a0a9da7cd178d7c2517ab2277696
font_02_sfnt_off00013ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1