Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac024cdf0a927ca0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:34:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ea2f6ce7640749d75171ac94e4cdd8ba SHA-1: 998f12e5a07de1f8ce8c29e3d85c8ef1ee44c908 SHA-256: ac024cdf0a927ca0c7ccf4b688a1d46ac55275810dce7728258e6be3bcf15e6a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. One such URL is http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411c2ae7acf---pesimupugoxebejaximusiwu.pdf, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The document also contains a QR code lure, further suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c665436e3b---pajorareg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/66338784687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/moxalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/jilesutezebupexotaviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laskod.hu/userfiles/file/bajamufebefovivarede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411c2ae7acf---pesimupugoxebejaximusiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client/imagesfile/98228810593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/76619438426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/2021972056384205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wegive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49755011046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgqq.hk/tony/churchofgod/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48947980690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41250738818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotuluxevowitalugolanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/22409208369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lovebliss.tw/UserFiles/files/fevowuvavoxutosopigelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaroma.fr/upload/file/jedegojevinopujorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/mitijadujukebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/85968170957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613360ee32165---sekazozudowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikuxewidariduxedomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///55604214003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95455206134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boboneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/347832537614061405544c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/bafewexiviwuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=animoji+for+android+freePDF 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_off0000ee8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A4 10312 bytes
SHA-256: f8014cea45d12b8eebcae64a66d2cbc5bb8a0c4c51eba549929bb545aeaae2e3
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC2 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 37862af43070aab1dca7a2fe16fccdf03c995f283c2bfcd9c38ea187ad670656