Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acca9f3990a9017a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:54:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1542ddf97e10c2a583a9e1606c7b5ee2 SHA-1: 5d391c9c9261775c428de0f937ae4bfac9affbb5 SHA-256: acca9f3990a9017a2153b25c8d7ebd87d4966aba8985a65ca479fede0629fede
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs suggests a downloader or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81270299076.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufevukezilogaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f625f7c706---zeziratojojojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/renerukokegoweped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301c1896b4c---kulavokiwuzedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/13726193524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxuxafowezenadeseruwobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkatsov.com/userfiles/file/dekubasefakadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6047737725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huerural.com/uploads/image/files/61429352551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394b781963c---8773714521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/negipidemebemizatesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/86846871322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109071527142741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7588ad9ab1c77243e1963fb93bb75e96/18001544009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/11091520850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/7587383331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents/files/44452705720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/nafotamozisivinibemusasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c25d69a46d90f5fc499caf35942352b/zajoxizozudiritupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d9c2df110---59252755545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_3AB91CB7CECE1016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4dba6b4b2---51379645279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=john+wick+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000ccdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDF 21256 bytes
SHA-256: a1b752df7fa5d26d216dca4d29a7eafb20fe7dfb55d97452cb055c074609808a
font_01_sfnt_off000102e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF8 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 606f350e047cecb66e03a405b03514209c7ba30ecd9e6f5668e6941cc5422267