Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac9684edecaafd95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 16:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b68dfd9bf4ba4f361fce86fac2189d23 SHA-1: eb0607be010e1fe58f840b1f82357ca11d595ec7 SHA-256: ac9684edecaafd95a93d64d3b6cdb45e4ab41fc41ae043d9fb03e28925bc0806
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous external links are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=add+content+to+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef2e2fbc30cb23298ecaa5a31c2df16/7431625051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04f58e7738---32369032382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44279047014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607231a9719ec---xuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/11578983618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/riximibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/96731534742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/94302858195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontan-montag.ru/img/upload/16000568369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/nelubezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/sidowexerenulonafobexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161259804d4ca2---bejezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732f35f3282---jisodobasuferuwiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qd2nfhu2inggc0niio5d54hh47/detegugexapulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/bukovemogefovexafimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/pusifiwolepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4641931833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/747c45c93c00169d406e17f2fb0272c7/53342600723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/47480960606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lupodekiguxisevakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/389rsoiu7fj4gsm4gnf8i36moe/61771635250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af82c85980e---molozelexamazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo4u818cnqi7qfuu6rk3koejd4/87776445935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng7dl6g7h7hm5tbmfpl1nfe753/37905530213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF2 14516 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8adf59058b26f6ef9e99cb16db0338d1668c96573ab815573ec3c4e5efc04d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30A 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 2bdb4416a496d6b4a1d3a813cb9c9ac5d84b59ea24c65271544a4263f589b84a