Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0ce568e69c7f0fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-06-02 11:42:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a20b67df04569aa05ba4682ef70b1c69 SHA-1: 019de28825e1b236c0d9c73ea7f8fb4485f7bd52 SHA-256: a0ce568e69c7f0fd0627c054ac1c62261f791c30de47829f883adc181e67a5aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on these compromised sites indicates a potential distribution mechanism for further payloads.

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 https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607339052e2fc---fekenuwisuzilimivigowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://highlandlynxotic.com/clients/7/73/73cf6ae24f8ea70eb1cbac1dff6b0f9e/File/fifutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b2662d80577aaf1d9be7460cb47f3c/sobonozepamimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085562da43f4---bogulemodikuwebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608164c84f3d9---6155164711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a068e165a6c---59828651784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b3e4ae2ae---xefikixima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a583396fe60---30287261323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/25080013435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/samepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/folazafemufanibafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/rezikanavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092aa034fa05---xataxinilotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk8lkddjlufg51636j8fec8ml5/nodusajoritejonuvegunezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufn1q15nv0f6tl7paaqmip6b83/kamapotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/riratokujetoxiwavuwilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiurll.com/1moe5cIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+hunger+games+1+online+subtitrat+hd+720pPDF 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d16f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16F 5868 bytes
SHA-256: 4e655100a2ddd02f4b088417e62e50e6324fa981a0cddc9a5df29fb540b115f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE542 11816 bytes
SHA-256: 8de98b506bcbb4c8282fe3934432534b6cec1f762df5a5cb7ebef11bd503021a