Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac2aef69cea542b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8aba31972b1c36db8577b607f618991e SHA-1: 586b7ac165907f98f5f18b63de3e4b01567ce62d SHA-256: ac2aef69cea542b6474191aa206211341c55f7c0bcbca3d532382fab61841c78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or spread malicious links across multiple compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/15527598601.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/34163948454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/4945149362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a6382bbc5---lawexiturumopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609459566c66b---73934274277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/81566266481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e772429952f455dec45be64db49f4565/fuwugaxesiniku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/23279990189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/zipelabokipunenogijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/1156092567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/gaganibikagamabuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/zuzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/dibupanarulojobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpk-m.ru/files/file/darasawotafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridgefieldpark1967.com/clients/3/39/39eebdc8797e30ee23d4fd57d071fd44/File/79488481621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/gofufiravotegiparajeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/77135314961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0e3e7cfbe---kupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/71280569219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronel.com/userfiles/files/41723758571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btslpogu6thk2carptcmlck724/dunijuxaworepevetexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpe35m58a2mstbb9kenhhnqdpn/lepurusetepolofetidoleget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/48085707371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e83aaa51499215f872df968220f2ed7/26043799827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=arabic+distribution+course+book+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_off0000f3d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010be2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE2 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 8141c8eb0d0c5501913f8f35938a2ae8ab5b90d7f9396841b6f3b8d13f2f3d1e
font_02_sfnt_off00013a9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A9B 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 9e927d294044e85ccffb4fd5758d42bac30c359ad68321e26a2d8f54edb83c97