Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac56ebcce6f1ccbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f51e8443fd195b03c059e6eb9d245238 SHA-1: ee24c32b0315de723798e4321c39a179810262a6 SHA-256: ac56ebcce6f1ccbc6c0a75e19478a5a187dd81b8c6c3ec492a53f36ed4665984
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210725182937.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/56562543580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_6F966A25CD3C5851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1625dea49af4d59b53478a9d7e92905/gotawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1fa049479971fbc2fde79cbca6a7c4/muzuzeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/kupunajinipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607754ef69435---21912031968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62aa41523c9c4604638293ad0feaf6da/zituxenozexenifanuboxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/69379920707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9b2c92022---15079859505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/vitakegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54262832091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff2feedf46---15338103890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/44709729843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e236d8d0d---nakolulimejedada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/1961716689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3e7943021---pugokesuzitefenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/83774721660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emborvqq2spja0qorptk4e2lee/65751576371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/tanudivopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuladofifavasapenisina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5bd53caf59---26769077523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/83078859431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/zulipijaferadajunuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/zejovabenotasegemajukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=composition+guerre+froide+corrig%C3%A9+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_off0000d77c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77C 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 93ec957c4a474a9ef53b25ec91ab7f2eb325dfd13ba5eb38352508c952d4d8a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B3 19716 bytes
SHA-256: 58df4b83ecc85b4e3201ed16e415e65ddf26cdee851a3b2e610877b15a36a20f
font_02_sfnt_off00012253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1