Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0cdcd7a5fa1b9d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-05-01 22:27:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 692b108a5e050aff15bf56dec00f38b6 SHA-1: 5f5c43e71621e76989541498b9bc53ff371bf8dd SHA-256: a0cdcd7a5fa1b9d991331aa64b71148d7d04ea9cfc30022cf863c9eb3cf8e550
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, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this assessment.

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 http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f110ae05b6---muder.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbgmggbjg6e3akb40usq2brqn4/90518515930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0153aa3a34850aedb1eae376b2f8d44a/figujopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461abaa1e713423d9070f5f110c64f07/40097824078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346ea6e6403fb79cf3cbb0aa9686d461/kunuzinufamipeledexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d22dbf4a5d28c44800499fc976dd96/79126279403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608387cd6c3d7---gilebitosamibufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvj6vj5cg8kjod49t2ht4ha5o3/62122466489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f729cdce4a8875c12dd3f18bd77606ba/seporebojevoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s445fendrhm6n7n7dsaou2pkpt/riguvuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fdded275c3781b2220b85bbfbaae69b/80129314518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762276b0254---fapavegopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab47b565c5207b44552ae274f0cb3cd/2421318592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5791tbil4pc7cntj6tnpk53r8/93194330833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=focusrite+scarlett+2i2+guidePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CB 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 572eb4567604086c465c51a2ec02c5694fb9aa88dbc4d76d6435df52825208ef
font_01_sfnt_off000105c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C0 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 80c3d14b6866823b1ef51ccadd5f1c313e18e917facbfc42de5e9936b4c80e20
font_02_sfnt_off00012bdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3