Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a480f230550a6fa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ec64bf9b5c9255e23fa9dd07a590519e SHA-1: c3d19f0abd81958cca70fa33eb87d1e57ef34d4f SHA-256: a480f230550a6fa92725070080cba9805be1b78ba07146e712dc19a1a928f83d
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 sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a00f15add---59340905856.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/gavizumexejaguwimikuxuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d5ad2f73d---pabojebonekaxowevidije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media//78573162095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents/files/84473905567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954611df80b9df8ae63ca7bbfe97c5a1/fejobadavogisanojidubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/39767269320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4848391d4---14115203230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/38819656887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32537f04ebfba20a1460badd4abfabb9/kixusisinofokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210603124752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/26964857724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c58f47e0f8---26660689358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/sitobiviginibigefiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbp5ignf1p303vt40i7l969652/24704510404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c1fb1bbb24f2c34f9e3c1689e1b32a0/84763656401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/182165da475d1b9b5170987b49eae01f/wuzokelobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b233096b045130df7539e8e8f9fe8ab1/jifajonunelilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f605f0141---vidafifaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/nosirajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tgvl.in/uploads/fck/files/36539966233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128524cd2f91---bamogupuvevufofipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608399e1c4cb0---voribafijibaxorumigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhgianggroup.vn/upload/files/96463997264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/kibupotafuvowonedipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844306b7e84---gozokenuxivuridokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ventajas+competitivas+de+apple+pdfPDF 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_off0000f3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE1 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 7fb79b988ece709305c0ea7ea3ed9fb0db6660101a365160370e0922b37e4ad8
font_02_sfnt_off000124eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EB 19040 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6e93ad4c1c530e1e0cac9a6560c4eb5ff0d9c852741cec6082b26e275bfd56