Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac565309a03cad63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:12:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 44a83b7b152359750f7d66330aec1ef3 SHA-1: 1548941614cb4f57c40b9ec3eb37d721db1282e3 SHA-256: ac565309a03cad6347e25201363aa9048317371d503dd9314a10961da8836231
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking clear user-facing text but containing numerous embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fba91242ac---silib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2860b9cb53---20465161114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/sitefejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de53a0fc4843f86ddce7342e1a579761/70658573030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907sa6jtvp6oc1jk7b8mttlir0/89617056247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb6u4c62t2f157t9o2fuecc1k5/gozivekujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c8327a59c---lofitofutalagewaxivetavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/vawenelatomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d7cd671103b77af2094d27529632c35/8754000057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65678675028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/bepexaduwexilobafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee2a5bcef0---tusotajuguxubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8b0db3622---vurifiwevizujezorujarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890accf7eff2db4fe556a261290e8a72/79189021410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d8ea2a119---52177906449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e24a282d1---fegigelonezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olj48d5igp70r30eqf3pn9djo6/82142820391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/vudugoxozunumeberiwifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/34532349684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavaecucebrescia.it/file/tufofulabasamamuturajajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/vagiwazazuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidutara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=yellow+green+color+blindPDF link annotation
    • https://medlineplus.gov/colorblindness.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fc9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9C 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 66a4099799d9d8c5e7ce67ace0dcd093d12de7e261904b5248f6127e8114d337
font_01_sfnt_off0001297d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14194 10328 bytes
SHA-256: e62b765d0c0db6a09ca7afc76345688130b8c168b4947f4858de6ae18ae78004