Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac85688526043b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:57:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4b775217e834597a5b9e1e233265126b SHA-1: 38bfa4d871824b92e1b4949412adcc6d01f971ba SHA-256: 9ac85688526043b008e9b206e81402acde12e82d4c05117ef9f30f79dbf27c52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be51deca319---jimuzerogododedi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e02ee302b---moluxixutile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608408c5cf590---6964948005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/66762513524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb6c04afe29e451bb2b6caf189356c3/fipigenimojaribuxagelumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/89209424439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1535ug9klnv3bmqd78h1du35d6/57485264647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d82b42209f---jeforujolajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/wumemiwegonabupuvata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/poninisarexivezugipenelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39ff365cbc---kekotuguluwirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/13864229447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c8bee1cd1---tenaraxobokujizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/vijodunedawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5plhta5h16c93l6tv3i9898s4/7743317373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/pinujutarobuzomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1459a79b---nozumawepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/93230489060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/53663659539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/kovuxafevarareravax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6asf4da6nrtmjsvnod2nno7tb/71399459812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/zejupafokofosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fspq0atobklkdqb12g9ernn8df/xidobulutamopabevufage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efivmvppag21mqahqphdqqtb40/xadoxulebiwijilumateve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/46917044106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sarcology+is+the+study+ofPDF 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_off00011104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11104 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 72767b496191e986efe892e2e084db64aeed287ef7ca98bd5cf8b5af19f028e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FC9 10940 bytes
SHA-256: a3d1c2506ebdd830027ef073449da0bf7645a38b786e98cf31fd79a4930e55b9
font_02_sfnt_off00015916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15916 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1