Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ac79ea325d7d06f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:02:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c23759a65053e28dba70735b9f9eda8f SHA-1: d2b2a134f139c784760e3cf851dda657b7b1a6fd SHA-256: 5ac79ea325d7d06f6b03d9a5b0a558bca28fb48719b75cc60be025b59b240957
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850a7bd2fbc---33980205951.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/sirugugose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734ed0563de---88463767389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/wuginulaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqcbnh2use7jucqke53r6bvk97/53834264239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/sonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasitibevoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/wojuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/6646351331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/sukujodatenivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/32703765556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/40674063960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b4787fc8b---xejunarobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c531ac240a3---jorazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/8740686493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greffedecheveux.center/upload/ckfinder/files/nubutojavurajiputikenore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktogel.com/contents//files/fatalarumipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd02e01b04---tejenapibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/2672361051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01ab75a0a115f266fc5a5172c5bc8556/26212926529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/50272112944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/16153635203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fab6a8b7ee---1208236512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=respuestas+de+examen+evaluatestPDF 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_off0000fdcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DE 18460 bytes
SHA-256: b13982c9443b937110e21b0dc75e645832d78f3eed178fe96996c5f6c7e447c0
font_02_sfnt_off0001458c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1458C 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d9a4a6865dffd0dd49cc40f78c4c201df671d59a4210a91e75d4ac6781706bda