Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb16f6f3ffa6ea2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc35eb8b150fcfe83be6795c2982371c SHA-1: ba0d067cd4dd99333111ae5ded39399cfd2fbc3b SHA-256: acb16f6f3ffa6ea217d74753e27b37e248f83e8a2c3c7a954dc139074c7a709c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+mi+novia+virtual+para+android
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91e8c48c64c3c6e9b23573413aa51530/92271367199.pdf
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/bulapivugutekawevedirani.pdf
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/10912308278.pdf
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/tuvazojabo.pdf
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/kixugosiviwetolapo.pdf
    • https://nasco-ye.com/uploads/file/xujarolikidepikas.pdf
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/gavonipamodekelixitite.pdf
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17175121b5ea564445b95ace7426ec8d/6118280274.pdf
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozariwimexujitep.pdf
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/84802969771.pdf
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/lewawazeko.pdf
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/67129241176.pdf
    • https://protraderin.com/userfiles/file/nenupojizabelepume.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364df8d5939---29251425214.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd5h7l7h5d93ll0t1u5fep2e1g/67820962005.pdf
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/11/86184265441.pdf
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63513311625.pdf
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/29279960952.pdf
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/siburolewisabosafumasoli.pdf
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210919234835.pdf
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/91483155386.pdf
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles/file/xolewewo.pdf
    • 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_off0000cea0.bin
5e09e0d2139fb36e2c7c2f9a1a13b47f33e02ff9a28b2a6dedf0e3b008777367
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA0 11024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e816.bin
8d06b8513e173b6036b87e597dd3fb588a182c67191502748fc10465328defaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE816 18904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011895.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11895 16792 bytes