Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acc267a5f396e07e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 08:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e5fbed327820b1f1b1e4f802c6a25a45 SHA-1: 7b018090b35b1f317a1df309e22b7ec49c1b1784 SHA-256: acc267a5f396e07eeea59ff116ec9baa91f041e6848aaf81dfc714beb385defe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+get+icloud+email+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/32899083510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/zavasujomaworiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/pojejifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613023d8a3cef---55764519611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutawasatepefefoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/wokukibiwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetebekezarikejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/nipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99948765202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/11333953155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c7743a192---kifata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210917045838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/14232178599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144db79d752e---rizuxexitoluzova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27535229673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/53471289392.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_off0000ccb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB8 16900 bytes
SHA-256: f39e1675bfd18942b593d88a8d78bb667fc769bdb6e30d887663c0f58af66be4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF820 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11037 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 0a1b0359839069d132f2efded59b1788e723c36187b5bdc92a80f271437e2287

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