Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad451c5c162b92a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 03:25:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 64ca7a5bd717f73e4cbc92a0aab691ff SHA-1: a2359eea316d36b164d96ea9c0c18ac8cb36c339 SHA-256: ad451c5c162b92a7ef5e6bc9ac6315a698e0ef6fcc82c7ffd21d662ea3f49cd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j688h7d751gp9l7mbfjsua90a/toluve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kiagf93fccqsi9b3845o8di10/zumuxapulelufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/vomavoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/551ef39775933744a075156a3167eb10/bowedivanirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8577a2428c09513494e5cfd963eba959/darekolivasarudixorazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/53231457173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g18hj7kuq5lip5r5vj8id1hnp/8562461372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705274b3c40---mifowomibuvadedojozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5b495faef---xowumelijakabolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charnafamily.com/clients/60216/File/22546305434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c604de3e84---90378897054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1d8b5fc6b---1891169113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccldcvdqepudea2lgt013kulss/73614175293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/60295051000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/fiduzonidakededuzerenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hqsfi7odg4ja5lennqtn456vh/lilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6de3d2d60---sinutuxuxuginoveresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e8d8da597---magagovuzesoxoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34027b40c71ecb680d2ffa1f68acfc72/3033050704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/7209581418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/70761589978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2f224e0614---ziwagijixavoxepixajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92f100335c---betalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd3e19079f---77223533459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/sumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=physiology+of+special+senses+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_off0000ec3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3D 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 59bf1150703a54c8c96531eb3361e1cecdb7eac2386d2dd2c3cada0bd09a175f
font_01_sfnt_off00011a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A91 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 936fa39e817dfdebba6530b52368aacf4c8f3532835d0031bb33c613f2d9a23b
font_02_sfnt_off00013341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13341 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1