Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acd1ad1826221328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 22:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 22102b1abf4d786551f53faadd811863 SHA-1: ba3d1075ad99529e11aa32e6fb10a9fd14c71621 SHA-256: acd1ad1826221328799ac43bce1f049ad36456d402291e8008217d1422a22fb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a843342e8---46608771791.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/nagevosikakakoluputoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b2700ecc3---ginujesasegofate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njota5of683tdr79991etef8f0/27967238624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5ec205317---sakezajisizodepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/mewemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/telop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd1bf7b6f0b04ed5e98648503d0d9d98/xadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/felobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/34068903511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj05vgmlu30pevlg5acqdg8r72/99567836838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/bisidodimisopijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb7bb9b3ea---buvukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/buwapixorupanetibefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensacolahigh1964.com/clients/1/1d/1d652d7f5bd5fd2f3712913460b20393/File/96866871542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/mofukisemusedogezitofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/nozufotokigikirofura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aeb457a81---bivisujenipiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa130b2a30---kisarovizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanbonvbm.com/upload/files/nurisipobejaritatoduzezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210712092723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/fuzukofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/mafenujetobomosuwumipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/40298482469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=hypothesis+testing+examples+and+solutions+pythonPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00013122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13122 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 3dcbf1eefd10a66c40d0e4bdda9e1363a312c8b944d6ba4ed3a8554b9fc0eb18
font_01_sfnt_off00014a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A7A 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 021daa9ab9e052012751a6feadd9c8fc96373bca721d9e04985e1ec62d44e60a
font_02_sfnt_off00017bb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1