Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0883d0c5525487…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:09:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1a5c5bebadd4939f1148c8375cfa7308 SHA-1: 2ec27ab3b30e5dc13de03b69ea618fd3951d5cf6 SHA-256: ac0883d0c5525487c36e840f91fcfc950356a07284505d3632e30fef5a5a004d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple WordPress sites, many of which appear to be compromised. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristics suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbef7f75db4---20506341570.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c99569334d1154cab8d1be0a1aa9d87/22658483858.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caa5e87396---nedukabi.pdf
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitutolelijonixij.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30fa87201e---foxunane.pdf
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/wuriwatok.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrkd869g6g6ocvu6fp2ffl8is2/72851808500.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928356e519b---dekuwitedovipipeko.pdf
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/7098120682.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd72c72bae---19176814499.pdf
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_E3FE817720D60CA6.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/53709364768.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ln9msh0jvj9ge3f6uaru7jjk18/tigog.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d2efb46a7---vusibeka.pdf
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f31d102d0a96ad73dbdbb3662cb02036/71027309997.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b3f49decf---73600448412.pdf
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/fifajopoderejavufamu.pdf
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ada1b87f---44422620848.pdf
    • http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound-clip.php?id=2512
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=learning+theories+in+consumer+behaviour
    • 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_off0001136a.bin
84c2c783165684ea174e90799ee691f259695148802b668274b7b5fe10391726
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1136A 10896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012c75.bin
2e356d958cfc9d5a318378140225d09690bc5c7b014f0afc29bc2b0de15b9e97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C75 16768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015824.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15824 16792 bytes