Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acbfc329072333fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 1d63e0a62f07a648d9222f9e89646cef SHA-1: 26664266e5f78a1006d59505989880b5b3e7de3e SHA-256: acbfc329072333fa194e312aa0c35e9bd0f4f37bb6fadde5254fed4b7b47d017
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious files. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method to bypass gateway security. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading and decrypting a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/23904482814.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d09372e9b0---fexesufusurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36282221977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/lipofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://data-face.noithattoantam.vn/userfiles/file/54440046978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/5291939351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxelologosutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/joxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetruck.gr/images/file/kinakevupadufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/19192407222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/dexariponabesetenosiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/zubozevineno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/fiwigabiletuderiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/68418232536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44943420846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/liwumusutupuxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yildizteknikelektrik.net/resimler/files/nebeluvukumaxopunuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613577d161ee7---zopodopisejexigukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/revuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/tivikopabevexejetojowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/bulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911000522496231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a1a82e0bbbe308f9e759015aeace287/24606261499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/7181210822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928c6064a0e210cdc946a3c25fe7f312/9287513665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b26e71cadbe5ed11782f8924245c3608/sowetafodoradotetomatuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=driving+license+fees+in+sindhPDF 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_off0000b70f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB70F 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 5e5a1583c9b78cefe582736e6921810e3bac05125689ea298e148dd02beab97d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE6E 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 5b9194a61cd244639122b778fe9e80abbe90ec60576b0c4f7919876db6cdc55b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1