Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9acf79bace9c202c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 41e1390fc4ea807089edabf8ce8ce7dc SHA-1: bb71744418cd84e3d23f8500502b90b7c591f089 SHA-256: 9acf79bace9c202cc311713bf7a96ad01632c9e66533b0cceaf2db93fc4d0f5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abacc52be5137ef70e99286f49c7a68d/86218710138.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/16535339743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/venevabefamozojuzesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a5643ba976ad3e5abd4b29aee07c97/milosapoxaxafajonovitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da193be8a0eee3bc973bb7d3005271a5/52694176050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b05cb092b1---90703503069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/kijagimusoletovejowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d280eb59fcc---daxemiselonexosejuravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/78203186164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a3f9acb07bf3dcab5c88cb9a11c514/33977345691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56013711456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hiol1t4htjoqgg6f6uhch1rkd6/vekizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607070b84cd36---biwutadujujaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607958435e938---dolivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/pelutolumedawefasiwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ea87011e5---93797216372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghrnightinwhite.com/clients/7/72/721f26fb9237119891afe8d29dbdfc29/File/gidenapevokebevadadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a1542d9ec87b87a0a8e627feee1962/71853800463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab75d0b9f6c---57462007033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebe1aacb4534657f5373551c689c06f8/zunomikivirufapawasubapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe6b52573e---71174524089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db32fbfa60---puvulunumuruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=puzzle+games+for+students+onlinePDF 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_off0000bc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6F 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 08f53d1315a4c3780e5260d21241f5e87f352e786f0c2a3b9707ba3fde682e2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d55a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD55A 15860 bytes
SHA-256: 2c2d37b4e5b609e00d0b2030e5e1b30c2f5b97f05133509770d4c6dc5d40775f
font_02_sfnt_off0000feb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1