Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acbfe80af822aaa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 18:26:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aebd78d00f1c236ece4168ec25319e58 SHA-1: 06326111b3a4561d5849d7d94edc8d1049a8a0ef SHA-256: acbfe80af822aaa0814c10c893a51b2930eb2c00cec5101390559d526b247d47
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The embedded JavaScript and the nature of the links suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to serve further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+2020+hd+download+app PDF link annotation
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/lofogidodesepurekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/lavututokazinadetevusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yingtailong.com/upload/file/210907120017022963rgo97k9p8gxg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/9085409443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/rakekowumowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/xijipojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/mutovomeguvabozunomunoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/13513871206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/siwelanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300ea853b45---26042276256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobermanncz.eu/files/10658293651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/nitevewevukarikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/fidakuwukodesarajotixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvine.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/88765104766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/99805070976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/87689425440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/54827087508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5udua.com/contents/files/24716186521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwifuputizadikapexesimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78266325541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f25a066fc10eadfe16bb507a434382d/pawubitisigeposijefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bb09a3e7c---lidukasikolojedij.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_off0000b2bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2BF 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 98d707fbc567076b3ebb73e9f7912fa5593bb840eede04a3546d06dd72308130
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB15 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 811bbd49e1d76afdf89d7a6ff68937f9fe87dd66395f97e129bcd81ce3e60f67
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1