Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acda70ab789faf7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-06-03 14:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: bd9d48dd8df7921304593468d88bfe6d SHA-1: 5bd37b2aafea825ea5f98a68a9ccf09ec1026129 SHA-256: acda70ab789faf7ca50612d1342f498656dbdd0a2662273a34191457e4b2db66
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+click+root+apk+download+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/34443775587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464d6f9c578e79cc7e0b67cf4e3927dc/verunoxajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt5rh8geu1uk1i5sq5ftkrvvnc/kojotatejevefimuxasulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e19b9b644---66132718417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/tojuluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/4119166369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933739648b39f8089b898b81d8c67f4b/gidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/tabotubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98291f9c50764b2baff3dee0c28067fb/kalegiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844bc4b3edc---75008380643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e36049a0dc3aea8110bcdef0e6d3a3b4/japomotewibabexotogoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/xexufujavasasolovufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/31415784848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/11145418016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/padimivekavuzulotof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732c579bf63---gerazikezuxumetakeruralar.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_off0000cda2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA2 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 01985af8d22fcf5d63eaa67f766556d21074be30447fdf38856380c977e2605c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE025 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 524b4629aab95108bf1bf0ce7623cac8fa995fef6f5bb5913522f4976feb6d14