Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acf038b6e59c793f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bc35c02a1246f816c97967e11102c533 SHA-1: 8cb8a551441b885b93d5646191dfc24038b6e726 SHA-256: acf038b6e59c793fbfaa4e144f923885b9d1e93784f39af216a3134e6c3724bd
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by multiple heuristics related to link farms and a password-protected archive lure. The ML classifier strongly flags it as malicious, and ClamAV confirms this with a 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' detection. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61774609223.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f64f43e4e07a6c088634154a1b9d2de/9304606575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/71551239090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/60464966725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31883722c8ac19d4ba9416cb9e22388/16146923217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odra.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/118023276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavilipowabasufebosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/33172535488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362998c09a2---44793878567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrominicabs.com/survey/userfiles/files/6562052631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133268c0ad42---bevinexujemavewuletoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/70952388143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/galisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewibiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/11495198529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajurokituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613354a64b3a6---gonopoletibuzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/8945991552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301bf9ebfd8---21471116220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/3629857068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136813685d33---22249471065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25463213188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/tiseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/63376245777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+unzip+a+file+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD387 10532 bytes
SHA-256: c092032bdcf009c38a65441173651300a9fadbbcd3c36e7bf9fcfcf511da8e76
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103BD 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 2a571352f1110367f29bdf1793c934c02d6a3532b469050b772eef723dc29869