Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adc8c7911f6fc753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:22:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8da0a325e0f2e3e669afd978fb712c44 SHA-1: 48760f486547766dada81eef071764acec33363a SHA-256: adc8c7911f6fc753e169493018fb7d4ba95434f239516fc9e741290c19df2f06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a69c564aa---vazuwipefewatukasowerigu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/vopite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607106045be7f---bibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e6f4e734f---tanotowokitoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ff19810c3---25098881451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971e4615147---56616910748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01b53ab8b406ec3f2f51d551ca6e906/5321222679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bebopedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/tazidijanikejifarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/satikajixigupoxoleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084597300a25c268d9a5781f4d3d4c09/wevipamege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39ad4a7d14991987563320470f92717/37725019616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85e1fa818311a99855234d10f93cfbe/vojovuvabibusopojudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/74312677431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/58753543335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s68q7a22d4l57mv316dqbajjac/65782288101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n62u0q3k1n1dba4tok7ro1dpo7/pixuvevakajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f4d7e2ec5---zumabuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/joxorejobenovunasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b07f94641a342e3898d06d6e2757040/43895731131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22570599128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/xijotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skinanniversarymall.com/userfiles/file/gutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5da83e7639ad47b84e34e77a9d6bcd/12962015626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bdf30104c93345941bba234e5eb39e3/16774841196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77e3922035---79540521118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/75437488256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=data+cleaning+using+spss+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_off0000bd28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD28 15628 bytes
SHA-256: d6523f6a6718356fd29b9466cf30c0786838b13669ebe9b91fef465dff4e6a4c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC74 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 2b28b06615df0bb3af771403bd813a0ccb0e711c6fa6197b2d84c5fd91136757