Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ac6601977b94ba1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:32:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5ec27bca55ed81aaa6c22f17427060a2 SHA-1: 037b2dd5d99180b9f5073c1c291f6931f5bfb026 SHA-256: 8ac6601977b94ba113f2fec0ceb6407151670907baa8a379c15bf9ae7fdffb93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bde1a3c9446879fba85a465e77498af/vamenako.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/bakikegovatakukari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/vaguvilowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca6df5fdac---36265008186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98dd7sjge8i4bmaf4ik2fipg36/76510372373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e552ce222d8---gopevukubobezopemeliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/89428475513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/577164412b0f96642e7952c0da826db1/80905675532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/69294807446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/61717787904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10d4954b2796919fe12474d7277358c/wumalumilegejowebelewaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770b5753f46---24639234918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/gabifubotolutivijezuziwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021060110461880554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/70495684489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/tilizuvesabofero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regamumupolitifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawelisekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4207404d1---xidovoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/1523861741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a59776718---xozivuxojowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5444e23fb---zimofapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veljun-ldm.hr/files/82888812840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/26387167954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/31737328556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=vida+divina+compensation+plan+pdfPDF 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_off0000de41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF653 18256 bytes
SHA-256: c8f12df612baa7c87cfaf6f00afbe2eb63fd893ee4803408b9c67da56e95b1f2
font_02_sfnt_off000125d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D7 10716 bytes
SHA-256: f960f08e9c7aca0213f4b03d6f2c441dddfcc69e58bac23a364c85530605eedd