Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6504eb7857293d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:43:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e5e059489caf153c0fb56bd53dbe16ac SHA-1: 5ef8c3106ffa8458b3ac6104d0742fa98b7c4112 SHA-256: ad6504eb7857293d857cf6313de85054d01e3645a813755c6ea21ea26b99c988
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads, reinforces this assessment.

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 http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a3ff31e91---51531752159.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e182586451---53701702933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/55476315902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070023c77a83---1103146623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f6979ec1859c5fa1112d3d62cddb09/86476572270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6t6heldh3iud33votelk2bcvd/rowatasopidakukarawono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e18bc6162a---jatiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b42aed23b---59833927593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://from.ua/upload/articles/2021/06/23/files/56733542661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0093cd55cdabfdbc2903d335760941/gonojiminaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1cc53981b---vegagotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/rifapudimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/2119609928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56b968da456a8a6f146f2a8fcfa2318f/27277804605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a2fe10bc5---66998084347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3377d077cd283037dff5a6acdfd64f6d/4946265929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17e4e7ac16---wofobamelexaluvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4916c9278---1318844343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c322dd0254750b45eebc09221c9dc7c/40836931573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/086rei890bv0c3gd66b0uthgna/supalonepogipupudaxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6rjpfdfa3uelqi7i9k8r521e3/mofulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd69c89733---41395367939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/lusaduxuxofewibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vladimir+propp%27s+31+functions+of+a+fairy+talePDF link annotation
    • http://janyska.home.pl/_mjanyska2013/fotki/file/85621903613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ffcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000117df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DF 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 6e13ccd48ff3188c884ecd5eaf49dcb632ba85f3d8d524d71ba700ee84616b08
font_02_sfnt_off000144d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144D1 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 6b893de01427f444e1349b162bb204ef7cfc6908fb8c2233450180a2f15d7c97