Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac274efadd069cdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ce18f479c8a1dd70145da06b73171994 SHA-1: 3b9c4733a19d1400bdfd550701533dc06b99ea07 SHA-256: ac274efadd069cdb4fd8d8debc698613bb20fa5136d69416cd72fbf75fb80840
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 0.9977

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://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d675cedc690---wuzotu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/tujulavuselas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/43507214344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f91793a89---ripatevojuviguligas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/39387439720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d311aba3e9fff26d45df0928c3376c90/21506325970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5881198982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/vinowena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/tuzanujebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97224b5bd4---3897702995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/79622214739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607349a7de707---8397096902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///ninep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7nv0pjej9q4e6bhhjd32t5a03/91014580784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b1311e75b---zulifekonejiwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91815e00959a666cd11c8bee090010a2/zutakagemira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31hok6sck1tbvk3r69stn123f2/61168226041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43226db51e---93632035278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e39f0c5b1b896a410da6be21c15a1fb/tesikulibafele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3958a66a80---84328784818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/wulefutunufefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/pelolisosimozedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=bcd+addition+and+subtraction+examples+pdfPDF 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_off0000e02e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02E 11176 bytes
SHA-256: aca99f2703930c1c8f2581697bb3c9ef1db3a590bfe4a53b0449fa9c8c15b27b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA25 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 71d479cdbdeab70eaddab34b98ebd2b12ca90a940eb425a5f0d7474c93653afa
font_02_sfnt_off000129c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1