Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adb1d5159a03419a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a4870eb54c396aa2024604c03b13939c SHA-1: 6b8c582d783e34033f7cba678346a4a542cdb78b SHA-256: adb1d5159a03419a471745f47e312312bab25cfbc7e9f3258424f7aaac907b19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, with several hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing sites, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/rizowameso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609a6216652e1---63771177938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa735eb371---86944284398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/kajoxekezonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/rosafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/joxuvebiduvijepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/vaziwafefiganixerexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/71797910854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrajacreation.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/96674212292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/xuwitaxetofaberate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d979d27c3f---feraselotelupiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/darudimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210529013401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evj1spgt3k46io6pp1o6v55dub/defis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b749d7cca---jekuwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e431f233dcbbcf97090eed928ca71362/darebuvelibijuzobonedevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/suzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896e497c254---93501435610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/44924534706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce9fe79b61a9e879c8d61fe11007afb/17353200481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26560d766d---90597952053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/39951665060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22ef0afbc8be209901678dd85813f63/64990149676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f7c1c97b6---kulusedofaloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e2da47d2---zaperexonokepefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+pkm+gt+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_off0000c8b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B2 10528 bytes
SHA-256: c4c08e20af1e232337d083964e8b20d35ba777c273a2480ca88954a0ed95a450
font_01_sfnt_off0000e07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07C 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6bb6414cfa407e8ded737fdcfd768c8ea180d6a84cadb15b758244eb1f9684
font_02_sfnt_off00011070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11070 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1