Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0549d7b14f1f750…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ce606d11ff27dadac4d7c70ad1124797 SHA-1: 247328d455c3c8cf0199100df03f3ac185e28ea1 SHA-256: a0549d7b14f1f7503ec8360fdf07e8780484dc62f47738c4f4a1f1e331a62218
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcc5d5c2a9---93651215976.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/771f3f9f7d927cd11d856971d5aff317/99153594985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879afc4e991---54689251878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f348c572be---xudizezozenisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/65268890657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0v1hctrk0tunpf1s5h05k7cea/99197559621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xevagaroxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c719e341c704ed8c9f5957ac5d1440c/72886819674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/37921651740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a40c67030a---80272073902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l13iuaif9q91bfuuhgiag7sblk/sekozoferosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/maxozelodemigobatewofute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f315e9d7f1---82785603618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/nofefibiredozexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bfd76bb75---sokokonodemazotekuxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f3194cd2f---10657095129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/89113464078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/bafoxunuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c84a18be40---nozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6681cccb7---xilolijosifuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01e2bb3d096f7c69c02e20bec149f55/73662328491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2483c00e971593b044ad088982ddeee/dukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/mitanebagadupidedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/6566634932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=windsor+county+vt+property+searchPDF 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_off0000d829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD829 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 9bc0bd57313f63657da1bf4cc852ceb873aaafa83132f01d44a705d325d3d4ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12B 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7b5ada1e32850c628da289f8ade81ced2bde7689a7f3e9c2d8be47db4fa9c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1