Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac3042d0bb33525d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:32:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2e55fff8b80715de734c1412f00c138e SHA-1: d96ddb42a9d61c45bee98f124e1179b6cc5671ce SHA-256: ac3042d0bb33525d344cd193df5721cce14967823565b1c6678fbad056998e7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable domains, likely serving as lures for users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://xn--80aer5aza.xn----htbdepbihnfb8cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14142292090.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94ad7b1231---12396074957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssekolkata.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70758706605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f262ff3dc3ee770b4c1d0b48566aff54/sipipidonerosivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128c3f0862db---60766992623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/fisetavakixolasaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/vibofigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4877104970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slpu7g35fvctnvmf2sc995fe93/taveraromat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghss4kni3o823mvkaq34fb2kti/88035694041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/mirikokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b876ba91878---vowewububoragila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c7343556af0ee71a6d78ffdd9a215b4/55317960504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/39815506877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgu4l1olalo0j7vo8d37cf5p17/80856242879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-30/20210830083450575242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/96524919848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/8044997710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/75599716142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/lesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdbf2d2a5b---suwejirafetatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/97546324637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/dixosixiwaladuvevere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113fe85ae9f0---lopogopijutivekorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/repamenazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2da5bbec8eb82cbf58dabdc360f71e1/73348785135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pooja+sankalpam+mantra+in+telugu+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_off0000e202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE202 21032 bytes
SHA-256: bc57d08282c5d9d681e4a8fe53fa455517765af2c9a9923b3aa77860a746da2b
font_01_sfnt_off000118da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F1 11164 bytes
SHA-256: ede68665dd66bc22abd4f4fb4f822ff99bdcc39b7633bc71bbae2d8e3b9ea46f