Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac84681a8b516a2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 91aad64c547ebe0efa8136bd95cc52cb SHA-1: 65b89320e05b456701adbfcd28cd091b5e96680b SHA-256: ac84681a8b516a2cce0d47510a24914b0831186fd3580ee6abef9f82fed4d014
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links. While no specific script was found, the overall structure and the nature of the URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343490ca524---gapil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leicesterbiketec.com/userfiles/file/70559069941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnizone.com/userfiles/file/roxoxolodaxiluruzixutojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/21257695318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitanov.rs/files/getuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88833364722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e65568cde9843ad8d52bb20ab734b82/muvaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20154022816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141638427c9c---gafupume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasifikendustriyel.com/userfiles/file/83923482286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexejimanapofumejudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/libada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/resifibenuzeduganita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413cd4ecfbe---17382918748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369c1f1445d---nivujanamipibifuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/72423394093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regcureguide.com/files/files/85048194737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/norosudikaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2222.netsociality.com/upload/files/fatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analhospital.net/file/files/fazorenirepizasomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandorbit.in/userfiles/file/sumogidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a8ebb0015713d69a7a1e21f5273dda/kelufanikedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/jabojisare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-tos.com/userData/board/file/26067074895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69136824005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=top+youtube+downloader+appsPDF 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_off0000be7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7A 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 84f804c762bd2b454073d34001719675da71402a7816bd2f7999401aa8377848
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CD 10696 bytes
SHA-256: c09c3c65459889460e78916a630c7eddf261dbe9ddcda02fc606a2cc4b778ca4