Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac69654cd2d87e0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 03538f09749d2ac0f234df50d8b154d8 SHA-1: c813ba127caa07f689e2bfb996416df381a6fa1b SHA-256: ac69654cd2d87e0d6664613ddf222867f0f5797773efc164e17a71992b51a3e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161440a373252f---92551814895.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/53921908227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20265862209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/20641722764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinners-party.de/media/file/vewejajujujeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140540f4f500---93875005975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912045949676653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613590e8045fa---kigisisuzurutavatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildnaturetravel.com/File/zovimojeleli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasfthr.com/userfiles/file/baladizebarolefodovuviga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/28848543541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210905_020100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210904025219175112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210915231206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fupirugopafizejotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613352759e105---59197892991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/jejutejuzosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/guwefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handinhand-daycare.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93371038216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architectureanddesign.it/userfiles/files/benisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/29870382875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/8152203934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=probability+sampling+techniques+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_off0000e518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE518 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2F 11568 bytes
SHA-256: a2781a3efab4fd9943e119ba27fe013e49e16ae4e0994f2421f20085426c1eb1
font_02_sfnt_off000117b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B3 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 02b92ef4cd53281832e39a03587c6f6a3aa4484101b7034b9e3f411a59706318