Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 accebacdf5b08b4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 18:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 28db34c9166897da4c1af58069f829eb SHA-1: 98b3e2bca8c612a9715e5eb4e324fb51b4a588f7 SHA-256: accebacdf5b08b4d71bbc5e5b7c003472e377a01b78ae8d76307f80ce943cd5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous unknown URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a strong likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b1af5583e9a6b3fbc04cc760650563/numede.pdf
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50757be8446d09163f9619c9586c54d2/80084197136.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/2872046948.pdf
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5470835bdba8e04e3cca4bfa4fd3220/22598122577.pdf
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/82644030872.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18089084bf1a8c6c8673b3c9f9f7ab3/jekogufowagazetupikaf.pdf
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/55370028302.pdf
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/kipip.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0df7b5a08---koxomaganupoberizipigil.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df2a9191ac---wafumipedusirizidatek.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac0db13c8774e144037647aaa83f776/juwokite.pdf
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/10336871699.pdf
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/79897588369.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c375fde3a5ac1d0c8c38df78e0c2ba/teloleru.pdf
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/88193340177.pdf
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/6338229661.pdf
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7770cafdbdf19d1a7bf13496c3e5b650/rapaziburo.pdf
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb653a959f2148fb558411e9504e11a1/21580202782.pdf
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/pufutirokemopotinelatef.pdf
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/20631876314.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=duck+quotes+catcher+in+the+rye
    • 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_off0000fb33.bin
713345055505c1c570406486297bba37e5b619b07de8d293811a937ffb99611d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB33 16996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012726.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12726 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f3d.bin
d2a80b8346290b2a170f6d0892843d558a887b245987d3745e4e8de69639a532
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F3D 10732 bytes