Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac324570bf911492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 15:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: a51b4355f4807ad6ca046a7fa0031285 SHA-1: cd3d1c3e97e45d5ee4d0cedaed90e0e40910bc82 SHA-256: ac324570bf911492d85e6da64ddb435fab2b0f7e21761623d36f4f566d024836
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which host further PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack, likely involving phishing lures or the distribution of additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/sesanejegika.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b773a627494---64854822059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katheran.com/clients/55933/File/34836049690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/refes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6b8676559ecef59c7078f3a326a973/23953925059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89rqri3e0ln53nbd06jkfs5j9c/93885480180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5c4cb8f45---43829989762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/xididewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/rusuletol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/94260053117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/34970637062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609965766590a---pamisuvugexisexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a8ec5fe4---98856225924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58aa583c00---41948015762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609104d0a2adc---nazaxiwejinepufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f2883db522f275673a409137de8887/65265717904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5e08ca003---16013746783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d976ec79a---bewekekimolanuwonasabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a064249a78a---napinurosuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/19254828944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0dfoh0coh6brvocopna7bs0em/wumisekemubalevodeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcb0885ad18---pevumuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/butiratijozenuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/43281383492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073898a4f684---61754048595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+religion+uses+the+new+international+version+biblePDF 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_off00010e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E89 18144 bytes
SHA-256: bbab62d96a1180ea7c40c36eeafe59f1627d7fa48cc88ea41a3df0e85bc205ad
font_01_sfnt_off00013d70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15587 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 6f637716eb567fa4132ea7dbb6e0de1492979fea09f80f5d4264b4735ede20aa