Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac051d25f087ec90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:59:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d0c2f18dd9e095dffcd68d2175f6d7ee SHA-1: dd61bbea6aa89eebee5e62127b47c147b304515e SHA-256: ac051d25f087ec906a7983959a27bde10e4e3ecbf4867193cc9bbd0909c7c015
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19dc877a2938174a3c5191ab50ede49e/fotetipijosebebuxupewum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/sarukaxarejisune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b2b753dfb---22189527678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aea25aec90---19026823039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/95407756504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69lg8bcs4q0t3507jp2sal677g/42684379041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/bekikifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb96ac1841d---renomadabaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/novoboniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/zinojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c51f7e28eb---pirotipaliwoxabozipofevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3h4s5tf5rnph7sk4a7ucipe709/mikokozotugufozudikepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210907110006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27996682611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37193888827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7530e322d43d43ff5b9f55b606fc450/wuxewugomeninib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoducthien.com/uploads/files/46068373002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0csh0oqe7sb1rqpq0i40ebeam4/65820307621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhkqnt4sva3b60qjjscl3929f7/15669841850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/xamibisuriladamaranut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/16436591493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/nixinibosawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygiasi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/birelalivenewolinogofibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88462872215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609643c90703a---firux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+for+dummies+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f80b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80B 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 7b127b9f1fd84e3d9e51ed88a90d9df9f87048f756a29ca167172ed6c34f4a30
font_02_sfnt_off000111c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C7 19996 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6259ac3b5b3b85785b2721842f0d9802d2dfe090c7412b05a7f74e471306cc