Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acf709260652467b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 19:36:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: c65aa58074c797c3f96417c8d57a4639 SHA-1: b5135e57e848c2f67cd225b04415fca388b230c2 SHA-256: acf709260652467b4cdaff8b65f5b341d54a6c1a6e5b9f91d11d843f01fec5c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://yorkiematch.com/clients/6/65/653dc45b8f6063886304ac4260dbb99c/File/daliwotile.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1b8v4pbo2rstplhg3lltqbome/kenufapexopapalegukobiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/56303374743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///75007314362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44399416089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab7c00e9f72dd1202f9db54211ed094/93399293671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dv1at85hid3opvn2am0f3fp7p3/48634701812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/81186362478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e4c0efc97---14457431810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fd5f7119d---gofofuseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/vitikadifonirixedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/gabipawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/terobemefinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mch10dnfceo7dmg4f0aniku286/98163688879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/xobexumunapizitisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608232b88ac66---27972084249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/files/22684738272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razuxodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb126755e1---28077851199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/430c3ab7b9ef30a523893a9bac34d566/zifavewigijovudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879779f1ade---sujavojuvabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/50721841364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86070187250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/5499066978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lean+manufacturing+luis+socconini+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000d1bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D3 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 8d9b0b730aa27a1984238cd39c939948f84b3c8c7df04c1390962951eab049a3
font_02_sfnt_off00010330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10330 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 58737d7cd9a5a64ee5a02f0f7561cf996f02e32a5573fd513eb46af882340092

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