Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2acf306d223fb949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0436604bd93e7083d400fce3a993fe5b SHA-1: ae1b750bfaf193cdfa740f7e339a5330a8673200 SHA-256: 2acf306d223fb9490d23ec7a4b34fb6680539240be50cb70fe4ef91165a110f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests the PDF's purpose is to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+use+of+dtd+in+xml+development+is
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/donoj.pdf
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/rijatuli.pdf
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95617627882.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748585b099a---putiserunijelukatetanawes.pdf
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/54683909393.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/897f7f8374f186a3f698f99a72743035/13444556363.pdf
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cf2a136d726e1dd92117ce8e4cf3ba/68923778020.pdf
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/85131646246.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98ef7c3aa---7147970948.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86c8a4c0d0---4784907504.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klsofg01safdjqf17bslu1ren4/3920510633.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822cda3c66f---davexigasaliwix.pdf
    • http://fujiya-burbank.com/uploads/files/jezijarevixixenusoge.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/26673462088.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdr5tkekoum6umiir5q5e2vj97/70803881648.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1251a8fdbd3658744e08d66d7d2744a/pikoruvariwil.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f9547c591aa1f0c67f9d8a1fb623788/98791394925.pdf
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/15685835919.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844406bde1b---vutedok.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpfu9a3i17lfoq45fk2aae8j21/97774424515.pdf
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/simidaponalirabok.pdf
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/tufofivevawixajo.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc65a45c9a0d2deb7e19aeff7bb0c02/vedupeteri.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilf1chatn7maigo08s37sfs0jd/58238225490.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_off0000e5c2.bin
44b4be0161fa25776c6d2d77adaa908df5689a230511f6ccd6ca869b8cccd91b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C2 17736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011486.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11486 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9d.bin
cd21a4a46a62c538f280ed244e1c9b1147a31372f2dad6a59b65055685a79ae5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9D 10732 bytes