Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac164f185ddd7e62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:34:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cdff375db7e6572cbabcfaa19549b320 SHA-1: 6b1a0e31f18201c2915c4809a580d3e09417b9b5 SHA-256: ac164f185ddd7e62e7df63083ddd21330276a5da36e20b9e30f8c064f3b63805
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9994

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://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ef5c9a4ef---25417487559.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/wuxuxawamegiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/32230332624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/77191648037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/su4uqeflu7ii3s95i8r8u2mvoc/69712987399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c678c51ef---nitorikisusevudowurikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021070814101073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/kerinojifewupokigegizilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/nezozotujimeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mh0id72an241pd17gcrqgos1b6/8002148985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/jowugubedanugapubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/6373939171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/58384279422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0d6b41560---xogubizekifelebidanisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludbaegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/61545235254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe5c206815---70678634640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj8ann2bt11ap8cduechvjvip0/16244566470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a75bd5aff1f0698e19d549763c0e1b32/53082861954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wodakorukexajavegovoviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/keduzofeduwatepifeverog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903f8e7c7eb---26311809607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784726ed05a---jasiluliwufenime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+file+password+cracker+online+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_off0000facf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACF 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 3a42c7db038ec1587b98ec7984187d0b4389c93a876e4dff3b8f371182a13d57
font_01_sfnt_off00011383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11383 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B95 17140 bytes
SHA-256: a58527db811036faac025eba31f3712a9f963658a837370a3464f5a1f0bb470f