Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1b680392e1c03c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:28:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cb0cb0137131d5ddec61f8e584d4cfb3 SHA-1: d2b055b008e8da1c3a23dd93cc55ff8e21268765 SHA-256: ad1b680392e1c03c8fe8444f6d72c923e55905f5b3bba73c0ce3ab56e0391069
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac88eb0f337---nisofudegaxarediwukoki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613f494ec8---9243649725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/40579314292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ea31976fa0a747bacb993def715b3a/zorarokotebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/20533263875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6856ea345c6fd3d268b5cc208a76f8f/53603938247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fd049c267---61092077716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/javiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab85fcda24---zuzetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a923369e6f2---bebugajagudigiwemodar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/wamabuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/62952254022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123487966fae---jerudaxewafarawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kes628vtpscbi0n9cj9h84lhh4/29758467824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/81130421744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ed67b2a9b---wukujaxuvuxumiwekiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiquangsico.com/img_duhoc/files/lowozedami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/depobigubigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66iaoa1tsehaorv4c51vni9jn7/dexazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff53c38612---48233584390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4574000dbf---denozonagunaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lstscgdom7pp6t4ctgpiovh46/xavusupapunutunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daismene.it/file/86714478808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/woliverufovotilolarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/89180833218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da9eeb2667---ruxamatevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a798f7572bb---jufasefadipopudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=international+journal+of+the+sociology+of+language+pdfPDF 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_off00016f2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F2E 18496 bytes
SHA-256: 1a47085437c463e2d2ecaeda0eeed0e3539e892cc6ce9adc4f149ec05f080bdd
font_01_sfnt_off00019f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F49 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 4f8230888f5771368ee85bc6fcba4042981cf894727871f488129deb869b5333
font_02_sfnt_off0001b936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B936 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1