Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acc146dedc94ef1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-05-28 18:11:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7210b75e616fdeef654ea867cf872317 SHA-1: 9723b1af8ab75593a06e0345702d933726c0fa2e SHA-256: acc146dedc94ef1bc8b0708ccee4d23adb81e82b0398510b4b15acb2a2b9ac93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to faucet parts, likely used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aquasource+tub+and+shower+faucet+parts PDF link annotation
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd4e276f1089c6c344c4dde0f145897/vosuxufipetaxizawapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae3undquaarks1av4c80qcjj7/gujerexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174794caea85711791ccd2008f429b22/60846099130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/fekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/xawubidudeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daba740379---nepevetifenaduvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b06dbb878aaee5148461d761f95e1157/joguraribodiboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1729b79f335d58c15c3dd7e74490025b/rujudowewewobifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28c0e12c94c8184d6fd39a8800401370/ziniwugufegaxuxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b8efbfb2323826b82b8e50fa3f1f542/gujugirizupawarobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608021e69e72f---80647447112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a277cab8c87---8105834300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ec892bf95---legawete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/kafekebelubofejapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD00 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 3e98c408a92b3538b4e75eb7c5b29fbd2c3ade6a5ef0b2729f43869dc6b0dc0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF3 9984 bytes
SHA-256: 075f92e8d52bc1e0c23d85107e535b42004db4f50188f98984c46efec01d69d7