Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc04a2ae545194bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

173.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:12:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 09daf0f106caa10ff9214bf49c5eb8eb SHA-1: d3399db358cf092385660dcd66778b8d7b89778c SHA-256: dc04a2ae545194bd8bade246af1814f0733cf117c4ddd3eb51248689c33cd124
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF that contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content, potentially through phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fda756aac2---nedav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493a9b0e3da49cad2e722101b3f4d2b6/lovuwupanuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitrine-prof.com/files/resago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbef0905155---pijutorikazifirinuwijebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwixadamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads//files/202108131644263779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/wuramusonuvanalata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/55797408865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/76612478331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/84711780651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/piludube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5327340267d1bc82ee2980d9c21569ef/bugalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/20603260096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/74119598018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bea1ede2587---79084116555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/zilexirofaxixinaxagaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://temahr.hr/files/25270331241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3b54a02a9---21732339813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/26419635319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fa204782---51838582994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59208d5923---mafevajirowewosogatunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/12152081342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=valuation+of+land+act+1960+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10090136418.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_off00024648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24648 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00025e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25E5A 18756 bytes
SHA-256: ddd30268dfdd02ebf81fd995346e40ae4a3f1b07c4d255dbb92d35978cd0ffe3
font_02_sfnt_off00028f23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28F23 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 13902d30ffaee4e0b496889e14919dd72e6effe6194df2f43192c1424a620fad