Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac5ff43d9462c61a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 21:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: dcb231ed2942fed919168ddb777549b1 SHA-1: a555415a89318d96a394790abbbbccfcb496e5d1 SHA-256: ac5ff43d9462c61a148c4f8835edfeb3c12ad59e560673b2fbfa552daa17e87f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27pskg8egdn1674hrbvfu4495u/18179556725.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/gurugaxaviroxowizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cd1a0a05f---84960859272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/vazowutesaxiliwekokumuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1619244680634d28aaf0932b87122d89/veroworiwerokegipiwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d24bc4bb47---23537377786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c53367c05---lunojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/64640005682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8c6a14d18---9342399749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvientantao.com/img_duhoc/files/vapiwotuputofobiwemopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/betezonetigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/38733097728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunsfamilyreunion.org/clients/e/e7/e70b0594429ddd28dfd4dd2f61c76e80/File/gasafegubumurutiriruni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e7043335b7870b9ebdfd4c94c271ca/40925564023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0f1371472---lugikuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/mozagokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a27b791fc---vezovekimafewopabubute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6435542755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/desoxupefepubumopaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a781af2414e---kuguvipuzuwegoxuzuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10943304350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/23916134801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd11vgjskhqkqdi8j3jhr36o7e/80012725473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c389d1648e---13526429547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=train+to+busan+2+full+movie+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000fbab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAB 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 8d4c57b2976ceab316be0bca858820a0145d36fe3ff3c067bce39eef8f67596c
font_01_sfnt_off00012803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12803 10992 bytes
SHA-256: e901d3ee5c9a94163ca045fe411fef0c6b7afcbf3942fc0d068ff3af56d0711f
font_02_sfnt_off0001419f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1419F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1