Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adca1cbbaea91f71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a24792845380c024aa1439c36a548e20 SHA-1: 9508ddbdcd32286a38e9f01f3e5c7bcf84913310 SHA-256: adca1cbbaea91f718150de98ffba66d307b044412846d5ece376dfc82363f6e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

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://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7819ede9c3---87276090497.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f8a57d82e3d84d5bcf5289c9335355/27870841285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/52111362173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/55956499802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/90278252931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/91793383802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609956e264697---revafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/burelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b26af89a57---xisakanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e4e41acd3---vetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c961d09c426a5e92727a4539e6cdc71e/83201848594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/89694502254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20c7eaa0c8---84795638731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a979739ac363a97eb5a5aad90b9073/70755519331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1cd229246---12822295143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319dfa1d805767d028e439230de4a985/23884241133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/74901888291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/ludiwuropesurese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564830cd278d3c93d1d8184cc61eab0e/xegunubanoredukomazirite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609825d710921---92014703562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad3893aa89---lelamurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/92236647205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ltn2sjf80tuvufk0aaljrpb05/20346344876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bioshock+2+remastered+trophy+guidePDF 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_off00010111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10111 19904 bytes
SHA-256: 1b666a99303d1f05661bc5bd2a7a8b4101257782516081532456ab52e42b6be9
font_01_sfnt_off000134c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CDF 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 862db613e412cdf3c0b038d59da4e46bec2ea5b5a720ccd023a4d808e17ae87f