Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acf1fe380aefca26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 48e243393ddbb6058bbb9dbe627b84a4 SHA-1: 2fea728a6dd6148b81aace66703db18e62b5dd58 SHA-256: acf1fe380aefca26a00be372735748ab5e0170b06dd674f6a1a87feffe5a3139
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier output of 0.997546 further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+store+app+market+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmm4asjp26p0d2gr3opfia85dg/falat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.net/beta/assets/file/36621117704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/sodigozibivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/vusifilowafiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s9jg2bmhnqvcvtrfdor91h91j/50971481844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/rufidakixidoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rileduvudenisubotosozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/gunamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/bekafadatakenovuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/lijovodizaludewupufutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/36228839581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/16732380034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/97083108832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiaavcilar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69420589825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://due.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41553823003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a89b4c53a7be792779f215bfd79017a/49212468207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92206e57e1a30840ebc7f5fccda38cc/70784676747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/98986876221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samumanesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/16455893034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/jamoxufajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcb2eb4570---20870946046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/xekirukejifiruliwelovavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagithanh.hagigroup.work/data/media/files/puwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapempi.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamege.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_off0000daa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA6 17124 bytes
SHA-256: d236a5f67c57dd4d592c53a6b15dace42765446002d5502a32ce8527912761e6
font_01_sfnt_off000106ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F06 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 9163317c88ac934bec7b8fe105180fb0a3e86fff3d1433f249bdb9da4ca25603