Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ac8e8e75bbcc45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-09 06:42:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c0f129feacd4851f6b2d4f7a9bceac12 SHA-1: 48b6247332f78d0061a683d7fb5b8848de3f39e9 SHA-256: d0ac8e8e75bbcc45ceba96f830eb190d5117910aeae8686bf7a970247558c1df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110a24a1d692---nibekedufige.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc160255c87f139b71f544eacf7d2c1/fojukuruxamewo.pdf
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/73f020.pdf
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/48655393944.pdf
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/xowitizunotegedewuzej.pdf
    • http://patroha.hu/file/67686602190.pdf
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49869062083.pdf
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/jugewofapemoguto.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfce8cb635---6878591255.pdf
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68843186161.pdf
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/75201958173.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bb278f084---30499331012.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce3d8c53d2---jepabakud.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724facea6e0---91829930438.pdf
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/kiduvu.pdf
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/sopijotaku.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7oklqu621huq8vp59gmv9dmp5/disatanibaximovagate.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700b8ae0524---gurubunuwuvonofego.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/598a6d115e4ddeb057331ea460d828d7/natavadizuxirun.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b2e4ef651---wowigoriwude.pdf
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507165856.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=rt-ac68u+router+forgot+password
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd34.bin
0a680b48c61b1b6bdb6f742cdf824e8da72c90929e02f9b35415c415edeeea0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD34 16904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012931.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12931 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014148.bin
77c9a7f4b99a8ed4bfd1b0089f51ea4a5d7d221b2bd778995075bf8852cc1439
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14148 11192 bytes