Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac2a89cbc85715a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:33:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0aa19ef6956e29c5b19d733d4e060762 SHA-1: 76f9c234257d2a1cf36ec4e896f923fa80ba426d SHA-256: ac2a89cbc85715a1676b0642df48ade1f6bab93e705e2059e0eb89b630c20f06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm, potentially directing users to phishing sites or malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the presence of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavipatujawemavidiviwew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/subuxokubodopotija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/78785576721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed56d55191bffcd992e252f5aea49765/14021088195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/dezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/9066367120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talcmanagement.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/7362769641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/17568456412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/ziliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/65343130318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338b4604393---kidumipagijeganubeziwidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getrade.net/uploadfiles/file/wusasojosodebuvuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ffc35efbe---80646037139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inmaabiladi.com/userfiles/files/72077446696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/94341661519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/30974138172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/tefoxewelimuzujodatoboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezugiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trust-law-firm.com/userfiles/file/20210906213539_545479582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/ludogepupumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafaela-motores.com/userfiles/file/gedikawerubisoramila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=synchroniser+contacts+android+vers+gmailPDF 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_off0000ccd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E7 17792 bytes
SHA-256: de338e2c00a32eea097b336881d99b26d18fc16ffef5927cff2729235d061b29
font_02_sfnt_off000112b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B0 11072 bytes
SHA-256: a9af69922ac8d12453d34b78eeac13b3ebfc97f8e7c2b5f8dcfc1493586a0cb6