Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1acdea0f0b300c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 03:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a395d7b78ea44a7462b4c94726259b6 SHA-1: 7e01a775e1779c9f7f0f8ff04be1860c8193eadf SHA-256: 1acdea0f0b300c1fe63ca7e886025aa17cb36379daa53eeb14d6ce990bbf268d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The presence of a 'GTA 5 highly compressed download' lure in one of the URLs indicates a social engineering tactic. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://cpils.com/userfiles/file/jofawisuwemududilem.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b632cc67ba0---15265169033.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1915427b919cd8b01a01d63b211110/wibugulul.pdf
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/suwudelobibimokipipuja.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dcfkpmn9ffipkp96jg90v5spu/43650802180.pdf
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/tekizusasafimapurefum.pdf
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/28447641769.pdf
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/tafaravideregazomiw.pdf
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73252341778.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855763e31c6---76056290519.pdf
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/kapuxi.pdf
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9dc09d0ae---firememogujugovi.pdf
    • http://sterkrade.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/superixixamoremigoladuru.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfdfeb30ef---60263869304.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e260f0b0b6c6e432f5d8a2d2c1d6b41/vunapabugiliberawaduragam.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffbc29835fb59164ac1bcd724ec0db4/40153750231.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f6d762004---61278690078.pdf
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/rurakezuminitiripime.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npc6pbelgd72qgdm63pjor6je0/nusevugumunezuxu.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607754495015c---69108643458.pdf
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ljjl86h94pclor813cvpg8q6/12842785340.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f513272dbc---85457988097.pdf
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/vovape.pdf
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/72072145524.pdf
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/fiwulefikuxixa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+highly+compressed+download+google+drive
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910f1bc015c---lojikagudomolepibumexida.pdf
    • 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_off0000e844.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE844 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010056.bin
bcde76cb9a1f792b0408c5a155db84d00e22b28a333f4f1bf820b807795339f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10056 19736 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013300.bin
6069fb9a0347f30dbcea4cb3737e3668502acb81c4135d07c0a118b5c1565828
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13300 11400 bytes