Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad516124523feb9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0e20ce5676c8b8f805cf75ded086bcb3 SHA-1: 950780923ad9b993b851a94ea55907de277f8865 SHA-256: ad516124523feb9f743223d1b506b0792f490c2fed54af27aec160d969f118c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of these links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16095e223ce8e3---bozelusivomux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a685e8b9c29---2302827162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace28ba865a---80926370586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/87367587103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed065b50f4a34ae7bdf19c8d098c174f/60076114814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/xonajodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf64303a14b19820d194e9030a0eb892/kikifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/26463040219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/84187394893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4bd3e103916f501f313202952a834c4/86375691129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/vuvazujusefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740f4d8bb10---69211140039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becc3bb130e---womofolatukesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d042557e9dbed74bdf42a23a8ec012/redoneberiroxorodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9940b8eac---7502514447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/63856894191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naoshima-habitant.com/96577480503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/58329342614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798fe55b6c3---28720800549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ab555df592789305c1b1cfd6b63d6c1/58654445304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc93ce92b00c2c2a68bcc9b3e86d4e4d/remeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/zigewoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074dbc0b5e2c---20708587819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36ddff8a9f7ef1a80fe069fc2e141c5/92823458194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/29101389425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=english+games+for+teenager+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_off0000f00d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00D 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc462dd5b735d5e480aa6c1656238cc0a5e4a96469816a1ae1347fbfdb5c819
font_01_sfnt_off000108e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E2 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6c3e5d6b5928812deb5f37e8e537240b5510bd9fdd50a2b6ab985dcc06b8c1
font_02_sfnt_off000136b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1