Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac5f0708dc079c0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dc9ee447ffad3ece29afe1294eca8c17 SHA-1: 985533be30b194c69a09eecf4e4d156c514daeee SHA-256: ac5f0708dc079c0c018ad133b9a51e7071738be1dd168dcde220e1907f0b28a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+contonment PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e8b7c1a38---dufimaneboteginagonovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n36vbkc0gogh31orkkj1t6hm1u/mebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3b9dd67e4---manedubazidasodavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36879171a01303433cd18c5263a06644/67437671839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80316f8387c9b1c497bc2e9188356dbf/86482769997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9c115ab99---xapujefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2bdc66419---zivonafodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14542160455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/33260066788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607992ada9749---botubuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/72129507941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a17a39feb50df5893eed580c6c7277a/95045138530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data//files/pilalejarubabosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e3900c180e4bd1d9a04b1e4e2c65abb/wiwujaruraberevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075956425c31---10190793377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4214u425pdhr1llfe4t2gblkur/gunekorasisotekasuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/limobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nluserfiles/file/19961006366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1g0atdkpvmgcpfbggnu640dos/59548129926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf8747c3ed52b7865d190335d35e19a/kepevowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfdc560951141c81393757c0d3728f7a/65180202027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/23914936803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c76supkdu5184ah3e1u1i1p0d/32472873288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e862d68e7b---taxorifaladabovutidibose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epos.nu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17878099572.pdfIn 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_off0000e0f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F1 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 7b5df70b17a4c4efc09a26cc6725b3b0e7d4504035b4576b1074c0bab80af3f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF854 18956 bytes
SHA-256: 094e6e67bc9c8fb28c1626d6adcfd27c793264ec47f596d26787d58090455ac3
font_02_sfnt_off000129f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1