Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac2cfdeccc2756df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-06-15 22:07:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: a4475a1eb2e6cb8e6e5aa692e2ee060a SHA-1: ae8e6c7f9259ebe661822cc64f3f9bcd23b88034 SHA-256: ac2cfdeccc2756dfa0b68d9ced2724c574aa01cc303c5e065b4e571445b0c544
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. 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 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mini+xp+bootable+iso PDF link annotation
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/lefalatazizomugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851c5b11567---19385677209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c3510a2acee40f2c5159736a0adfac/56428280869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3adc01fcfac94fab7d9d8807c215c5f2/43546252389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/64027507332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb193df7bc5a60ff1b28ced80a19da97/26890319309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f5fbc46df0c36dd63f8a24f4aa2af63/96170460519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/410941956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be95c423d1c---2315673981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/2642106392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b5853dd15---godapotukirasomutokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/31683428436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de35c8008ae8dd08857fc00967756fc1/xetepezusalaberudabujomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8810624410625d6721a792a5a7eeae65/5168249441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85ded61a53---mogemowolotujuxiwete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/pasaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A7F 4932 bytes
SHA-256: a6f59ec3ceee86540f4925c2a99a31a716e57db5fd8a113c6407cf295625221e
font_01_sfnt_off00014b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B61 14944 bytes
SHA-256: 1b053c041fe0f1f3351c6773742924f8de9e27e2bb17b9ddceab21c158a6bfca
font_02_sfnt_off000178af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178AF 3180 bytes
SHA-256: dd0a9e91f085b426250cbaa6e366c34f181171e5f1dbb6b144a940c2b2900208

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