Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac287558a6f7db8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2c1e8f52a57a8b81458d29d880009497 SHA-1: 5c326739ee65035e141856568ddaf14159795971 SHA-256: ac287558a6f7db8e8fc5c4e695745dbd438dd680fbe504639d9384bd2e41e0d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to various domains. Several heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm on disposable or compromised hosting, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calculus+2+problems+and+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugenupejarakututikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10205c1887---bepodekubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f52015268---mininelile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/pevanuzolipiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507080807305619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfcd58c9ec---vazonuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/96308751252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47cae3463890f4d218153c878a096ef6/8245597545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/81850794178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/12355948230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/fokepojejopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/39933364010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/warukizekipubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/51973532468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tisuputih.com/contents//files/tegupukimudokuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/watodizavulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee296576b7---potuvumuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d6c475f7110b12d167805d7d126f12/36540434889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finowaki.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DB 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 825c7e23869b4fc2ec60730035f7b68c2b3566bce86da94fcd51c3b6197ad116
font_02_sfnt_off0000facf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACF 17048 bytes
SHA-256: b7d9989c8b3c3b36b6491e0e138222b83d2199d0afcf1ad58ca1cad4fc664647