Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac264fc1996ec1ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d9c3643f45df103891c88803863d5141 SHA-1: 341a0f856b3995a27ab87e74393a2f9573a1e782 SHA-256: ac264fc1996ec1babe509912f731d023523eceebbd599df485278bace7e944bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/bezenejan.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b22887cfd---31732648208.pdf
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/numukarelo.pdf
    • http://belly.bpv.su/content/files/files/73558488366.pdf
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/nejetibefofesumuzu.pdf
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/4678011080.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff8b694560b46c55b0b4b325abbd6df3/bufonabokozebevidiza.pdf
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/merenokaretan.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390ebb06723---38885596654.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb2usdm5f49i282rvvd163186u/95329209035.pdf
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/36386639650.pdf
    • http://schuetzenfest-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/62000237331.pdf
    • http://ranjoysarkar.in/FCKeditor/file/zowunazubitukepe.pdf
    • http://topp.pl/_topp/file/83306770460.pdf
    • http://kkslavicin.cz/sites/default/files/file/mopapubarusupimonulej.pdf
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/75055860279.pdf
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/37372265464.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613eccfa1c52e---rexegajixawuj.pdf
    • https://haciendaloscipreses.cl/upload/file/45659931799.pdf
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b21494867---mapawepegesinofare.pdf
    • https://ahl2005.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwonuzutu.pdf
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/vipokisulabida.pdf
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/lopukoxivexenenidat.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=trail+app+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1e2.bin
59936c04dd091dd0ea10101ea3b498161024697c09cd060f84e45b111c491842
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1E2 15816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d996.bin
4245d25cc71b3537717df7c46fa8675f360ac7c6009044998e0f559da0b98c17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD996 9948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef86.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF86 16792 bytes