Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ac9ef71e7f9b8a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-06-22 22:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 22c2386162df8010683c57b5c9bb93bd SHA-1: ac0dc4b8b004e7056b52923b080ac407602b8f45 SHA-256: 6ac9ef71e7f9b8a815175e29625ccded029fafcab86c20f1289f5862f5bce9c9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/79310655621.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0c39d2302d6009446e1de4ad4e20a9e/47170670666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/linijamolaxutixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/36230758251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef4057e970---57638094600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac041b86b97---40788364723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609472df3d54e---zejazomakineruku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dimexautomarket.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutetedisinalerewifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file/%5C/98238523745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5115e467e22dad8c1b55c1eabf16a26f/64695694117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b819dc75d2---18236368468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vujemovatapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbgj5eq6bd60lqesu5arqg7vk6/jivubipeses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700fe26a509---21818593658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/fudolarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/gofesiminapimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=scrum+foundation+professional+certificate+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000112c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C5 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 34b2f61d0ada01857e2ca2e90241581fba16555e652d9341255873bf1f14a96a
font_01_sfnt_off000124f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F5 11936 bytes
SHA-256: 25c71bf7675f40ad8a26efa0f9d11cfee0a15f2ab23beb88ff9c9d44c304c5b3
font_02_sfnt_off00014d9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D9E 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15
font_03_sfnt_off000162cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162CC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333