Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac72e0e6a543e74f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-02 15:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 054e88e78de59fca06daba9ff05982b3 SHA-1: 403298ab896e887d2b93711a4664d8956382a1ee SHA-256: ac72e0e6a543e74f1e456f134c7b28c64acc4e7da92249105d37ed1f0d7c88bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection results strongly suggest an intent to deliver a secondary payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazomebelumaguze.pdf
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/togujazipu.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dee540bd09bdf788715ac38dbf26a726/814048558.pdf
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/verizatovovi.pdf
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/lobizetawexagukokub.pdf
    • http://tasfor.com/files/galeria/files/21108465893.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392057d75f5---70384372487.pdf
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/6586302840.pdf
    • http://om-ar.com/userfiles/file/gekagaxovarirulod.pdf
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/zawisexabajoworewonixud.pdf
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/wijurafufizogetinoxezonim.pdf
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazozixofalaregus.pdf
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/pujaliw.pdf
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/miduvifikezesitefonaf.pdf
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/sekon.pdf
    • http://ttfi.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/27276116362.pdf
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/limuxodopadozokujo.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euagag7q33ov8hu41ed4mlkhog/74698008852.pdf
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/sifetokafoxaxukewaforub.pdf
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/75212974221.pdf
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukupedekegewevilopiso.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b66d2d27b0d98f5721e655dcfc79fd4b/kagujezafi.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149a60923bbf---80388791374.pdf
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudopaxaboraj.pdf
    • http://kiapelhrimov.cz/UserFiles/File/84698012932.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=yahoo+answers+in+spanish
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b213.bin
b7ecdcecec691c16b6351d0c2f367b4fd31eecca656956206f926eec06840e4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB213 14972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7bf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000efd6.bin
e8594e0219a37b2f150f36a328848340714584a3cec517dff81bd31e8cf26f94
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD6 10272 bytes