Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0e8683e729c26c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-18 22:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 62af43f8c115a46bec429874d4739530 SHA-1: 5e721e9457ce5ac0bf69e2eabc5b8b6812c6fbce SHA-256: ac0e8683e729c26c8a412f4d5f5790fd152f436b885b68099b988c3245d0b07a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+noun+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79175869735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b2258c254---1203765734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6f4d4ce16---lukufizenogikajojezijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/puzakura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hq387mjb8mdnvc8cfbu3gajvva/redifogesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbab6cc6e09fa6090520ed16ad55c38c/8735994346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65402774552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/29966434551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817caf3ab82801ba59ad8bba975f0f64/sumojofozizubegefogumomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a78d06523---godopimeratofomapisozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/nokokajotakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/53196608501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4565ng82mb6e6011frekc7rij/78686302715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/vinigorasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c5581f53da72c494576927129ee420/36945603225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE094 4316 bytes
SHA-256: a35732b4b63b98cc26026b0f49039bda36c01d9adc6b410f58c3a398ce939fda
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF27 11336 bytes
SHA-256: eafdfd789975e0eb2f41158f5076b9183690b8e7bb555c0e5e180be065e73a17
font_02_sfnt_off000115c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f