Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb827a018dfba28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 15:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ea3e971e0469e5a779741c92df577992 SHA-1: fdc8ead87779bb2bf243155da611054c4ce93e0a SHA-256: acb827a018dfba28ad28b61dfdf9569f55ca660779917d910bce4e0e25831c2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. Heuristics indicate a link farm structure, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c2ebf0e4---kelag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e12bdf53fd5---38299522100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/semugiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaditrading.com/userfiles/files/sutenevunekenagobotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b0e4413c9---179324204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/40817393851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82006d2fdb---17627340215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eacd9f44f420c3e36bbb4f63a231620/rifesiduvomujubasolakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d69ab6af91---95822226207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6021123ca44e3cb38b32a2f788a24b2d/71651356865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/759210ccbf828157aee6ce921d57d124/puvunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/fagivabizuzoxezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/xulusemirikefalumada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/55328817638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/151ae06f9b1ac4967f2e08a789965076/19970704480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/68499531668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b6a198382---gumimufujuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/sasaratikakelabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92a97d5e9---taruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/vawomurebizulali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d1431eb41---27494639012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608387ebc0bd1---fegoranosekawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80234b6119cf3b4bae46856ab6ca561/76312030065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/682943f57ea62df376375562685eb484/59928650358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+do+when+your+water+breaksPDF 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_off0000e95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95C 10732 bytes
SHA-256: a68fde6a4e1e6e782460a3d9cbeb4744dbb3a27fe2874bab1a7aa7ddc6bc0b92
font_01_sfnt_off00010208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10208 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 394a8b51f779d5e4b61efe25e5e41171b994687183d78ea284d6f4bb952761a0
font_02_sfnt_off00012d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1