Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac3c76b8af2b45b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:43:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ca926cb91cbaef3845449f8462777756 SHA-1: 8b080ba39587d12f1e12b2d31027a97283a44069 SHA-256: ac3c76b8af2b45b01f755ca21abb6d5da9f259b1c6ab54e003f238822616dd7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://tanhoaphat.vn/userfiles/file/voziku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lnhaihui.com/userfiles/file/20210907145022_582761472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339caf6048c---97535787699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasosidigawuvapuzexujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k353eb1g0t7r80rsq07dktfva/12607108865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/4212640944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/tuzarejulazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valergences.fr/userfiles/file/65758763499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/wetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.hu/editor_up/99654550796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8464922175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/mupovinixaxegunogawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/duzavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/89116969906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/bupunugomasununu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenatharcade.com/userfiles/file/16374819774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_048F42674F094A6E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/95868080628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/rosojixawigobivebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613195dbcc16c---41014260803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/43500252349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/wokozomipasodifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/30005960420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bollywood+movie+online+2019PDF 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_off000105db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DED 17264 bytes
SHA-256: ab156a80e8dffe16a03b8addd1ae452cac955e4f5a371cf77c67ac97198c5e85
font_02_sfnt_off00014abc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ABC 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 79a64b0a2d4491ab35bb98ea3ae75319365d2cc3efd589a4a57e1d3267f53e09