Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac819138776d7dd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-18 00:25:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 216cc9beb33f99da314377e11043bff9 SHA-1: 50fffe21eee15d6d843677333136a5b0fb027191 SHA-256: ac819138776d7dd3d1bfc04ed3c16bd9d26982878da3d9a38771f8694144c828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or redirect users to malicious content. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/43587028939.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee2ac35d0c---7550455343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/06/file/1623914357664502580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/29487072842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e05c28560---nokuditunosogexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/viraniwiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/59169040709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/54452574635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7cb4f93fa039f3fe876aba2fe294fa0/32016604419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52d1d1c54724bc6b58d39c5813b2ac3/28451708344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b4dbffa092650a2a0c281cbb3b16f5/62545970195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a88507df0f88dbc19df9016773a0014/82485462677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/631b56eb2475d97b256bb33e9289b104/xolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6e70f0b708e8214e0ad5633a0fc4e9/zirasugetanefateza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641abba76258e89f6e087e335f19a5c0/wezomobeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sedcfmr16j12u45ntdsi9mkdrc/xazuwukiwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/34190359613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36b3d476b1---ditixitiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccbde994cc7e8819731a8d9bdb7e218a/40695225138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=7th+grade+distributive+property+worksheetPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f3ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AB 5632 bytes
SHA-256: fc74f59b9fb574c3d71224228bda01d4dafd8d371fae8d41d3fa26dd6c153c72
font_01_sfnt_off000106eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EB 11640 bytes
SHA-256: 5e88898101d154e82faa069403e999954ce4781e2015ad7c8adbf62a89100720
font_02_sfnt_off00012ea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA4 16504 bytes
SHA-256: b92c2c41fad0b317c0f3bfbb81c44460ca620b786e5c37a4d3c824e0cba6673a