Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac45124d624f7148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

162.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 08:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: fc700559f3ff63ae41718670dbaf5d13 SHA-1: 801b4419fe21952ffc74435eb34df8c3618bec95 SHA-256: ac45124d624f714866a10ca9167ca6ff4c93ecd42e0f77bc8eeee60a9e426d50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The file's structure and URL patterns align with common techniques used to distribute malware or facilitate phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9246

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://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/wilaxefuzukesexejef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/07/file/20210607_190117_157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/kexibipajonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/4805059111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e316fa3554---56384673132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b35686e41---81304601078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/bevumetati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/80598306255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/5540967485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f244751644---lidipexagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/77173157197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsraxys.com/uploads/56695543568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitranglani.com/upload/files/52335030778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb28dd08e7beb8ce26ae418fb022839/52050328631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3eeaf2b55f7d4c3b8fc0381337b83fd/gimerawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/xoxofunegawajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/6101533062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/vafeniruvajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64b409e80a---44439436448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d7da7b9993---45741736251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcfaae4d79---53360648629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a1c30b9cf---juzitopuwugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/darunirale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840b4e71176---kenunilifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/202185158436294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+algebra+2+chapter+4+mid+chapter+test+answer+keyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001f957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F957 11632 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7ecd0bb84671dc4efa476166e1cd405565597b60d81ec2464a8ba31be5646a
font_01_sfnt_off0002148b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2148B 19720 bytes
SHA-256: 4d7ee1fb60bdc0bbc54e1a59e526a30635a8c132df1225092d732e99cdd72026
font_02_sfnt_off00024892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24892 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 2084421fc2d02e4ace5941ffb1ffb295c9149ef649cfa41e279d605509e27194
font_03_sfnt_off000261cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x261CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1