Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac083e2a7f26e7f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 93b4289c1c83c4e20121051c2ef9ee43 SHA-1: e5a43b39c67b7847347ffa72f95fad430df751c0 SHA-256: ac083e2a7f26e7f18837f762f5223f1741a8c1082668f3d57d972c39c7420642
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hamlet+act+3+quiz+multiple+choice+pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80694519ca---xekosib.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/125535c828fff0a6b7ea458ec6043f70/80606444346.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7a9a178fb---temumefode.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/38489078536.pdf
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/20359615859.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be641a95286---magulezipoxafenelu.pdf
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkpso1aqbjmgn1ffmeefsvgmo0/3704602031.pdf
    • http://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gizewetipek.pdf
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/7819209599.pdf
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/ratawagovakoxu.pdf
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/gabew.pdf
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fa2180a009e993516ac4a9b5f8c468/32367818614.pdf
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/sulubusenuvotena.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8679738748---20578312535.pdf
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/dimuvezamitanijulore.pdf
    • http://eastindiaspray.com/suvra/eastindia_spray/files/65563247129.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/76965615818.pdf
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82c336c975---xufuwiwelilitola.pdf
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/kuwenasasifaja.pdf
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/32097645780.pdf
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/55744700135.pdf
    • 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_off0000f90b.bin
3fc8d0a5404a8aa92649fa9590081dd4b55919950d022c143cf493c8e59c739f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90B 10980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011255.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11255 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a67.bin
6d18a1285a5332ac0cc29271da898ba2807994fe6a96b45a7fa73e859a05662e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A67 18528 bytes