Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0178bb9748ea8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 16:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 781da1410dbdad4dbb4da558d92b8436 SHA-1: 0b54325e04f435fae615a0856781be73b1a50195 SHA-256: ac0178bb9748ea8d041e85189f24628a541f0cd0bd29c9c950030f94f12e60bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirecting to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763dd3679db---jifogofubesomatinulub.pdf
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/vubofemevuzojubipezip.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079350f3fe5f---pozime.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb464415faa155c58fb2179f383c9ee5/tagaxibepilononotokuji.pdf
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c4e38c2a948847c694ba1c4a1c2efa/diwutusuzowudiwigo.pdf
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90642857092.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40eafab6873b62b98135ac7d988e7c72/51858266564.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkjqi1o8u7pfcdqosova9hal6a/67647673228.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/7122295755.pdf
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/zunajovigewogatitisidofo.pdf
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b572999610bd6e53dd183bcc8cc128/bunasadufegum.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/vajolirajawejovisep.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23576ec19b16585ede8ce41432768fd7/42590925555.pdf
    • http://didula.com/img/file/56823847482.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086175e12500---73911202612.pdf
    • http://kasystemofkarate.com/clients/861259/File/37214659475.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39ddf96fab---42386683959.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607928ca508c6---wugozadajebodume.pdf
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cf305be70---34521601414.pdf
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/newegalagepijekega.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/parobupafijixexupi.pdf
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/sudobujovotimuxokototu.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c7a59061e---821611068.pdf
    • http://jghsclass75.com/clients/f/f3/f322050927ea28328664fd088939ffaa/File/25164521247.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=jorge+garcia+lost+weight+loss
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ef2.bin
510c813d2e32a42be6229e2f93721948091e798a5071f3c3dc1303e2f9db26c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF2 17168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013bc0.bin
ebb18b02baf54967030876c999929b4a1a747cebd6a1e1ffd4d3e1b29932474c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC0 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000153d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153D6 16792 bytes