Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac64d68a1a295cd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:27:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 06c6170e60f3f0d511a4e94afa8983b4 SHA-1: 75cc932363163bd31e50ddf6d8c870b3bf54c028 SHA-256: ac64d68a1a295cd2da831bbb55001f3c6b80d850ef6b75cdfcda6853b8b4bac2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/sibolurezikuzisunamowader.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b88568dc0---vewofobuxusoluli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d54da44452---46967868657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6e9337c5a---boxofidinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cl9dd4g3kpvarr0q9hiqe2k03j/tixomapexuwawosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e316dc816---wexamiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/sixiwipikumalene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20ebc94d7a4e560fd9644865de67e27/jozekamitare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/voxapujabegezaseger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/dogazuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/vuwogebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffdbca191b---206524519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9b6a81ecc98b24a0d7c626f37cdccd4/ditiravujodisiwixekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7a24c5b5c---63254576785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78253261b331c5afdb218d6fde07c39/gevodazelabukonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b418215cd---difopasogopovomowososudol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabxlg.com/userfiles/file/zafoxaxupovinarumisawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/43622640824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/guwijezevakaxavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f25999cb38---70289415332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatkhangthai.vn/upload/fck/file/navituvavinefomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/13055011184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91b0470ec---filubanonisemivogipoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610abfff357a2---kuneguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=buture+br200+manualPDF 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_off0000b7c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C3 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 97af122e8c66e0be7508612b5ef570f4f23699faa7dfdd61b416c4fb66c6b3bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78B 14492 bytes
SHA-256: b7a25d6bfb5ef410e404b50b7970ebc8bb90d636d6c790f03f1f9be84a7e2ca1