Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0d88bafb1ab665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-01 04:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 955caf4b39c25741b38d47f941c01ede SHA-1: 1e5506bd803a91343dd24ae21aa6fc7a9f8efd1f SHA-256: ac0d88bafb1ab665fe3780b33d010d316db40b85a39d3899043ad4f0daba7a04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself is also flagged for duplicate object bodies, which can be used to obfuscate malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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 http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/guzivejuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfma1kbvbss37qh4tfskrh2l51/62346299951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/74858572651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/44648463552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/vitukuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ee9b7e4682cd6fc0eff4627e56cfc0/mumagojovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvh14aaagt33ck941otl001f84/borokenupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23e7d76202aecc50bc404bda46a1714/josojobelazosexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fb12b5653---45994353403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f243bff78efeb6f0881a283a673eb695/zuzugerepukawetilujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e676c75fb71---ruxozufagolugadanurilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/71003597872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/1054423625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57d38c5531---87702823490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7d850937d---visorejavevodisunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f923d3a9cbd---71973199119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wipaphun.com/UserFiles/File/lenidewixonumorumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/61356721077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19626f0fc30f868762064028134aac01/sasasufuputumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/derarajuwosutigunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37084726883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5557569a22ae9b1165373b3c35624d7a/fulemaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a2d084f2f---16246723379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/lizuvavizexufibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5eb584dc40c0208ec24db9925e0e3e5/wogesafofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/60097466357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/53176153643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=caddo+parish+sheriff+office+north+marketPDF 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_off0000fd66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001157d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1157D 10964 bytes
SHA-256: a93bdf58b053ce6c863fc94cdc30e2a832a5d475221a89bf2146bf39e022808b
font_02_sfnt_off00012ebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EBE 17224 bytes
SHA-256: ee9a8b7ef536a452c8375bb65be6cdb81c9b46381a68aa90907f9131e766fa47