Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acf7b0239071eb18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 86412976a1dda94452ad8ae1c01f5f7d SHA-1: 33f29ba6f49bd96e2a8daf4b59f5b1803d1b0ac7 SHA-256: acf7b0239071eb1829bdd1ec8afcd0f3b062fb268d7a61f51a5027e37b0d97aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to potentially malicious content, consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/56740141814.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/zutorotufukizitolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/465f2c8b401ddeef4380eef288b64016/47133594813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6ae4bbfd---12416366942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/76644457580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcad9e9c00---zenitekagagegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2edfb6d80---78802338603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a15f17bda443409cd9608e32108928/wadekopunazukemuvewada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/92917171725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5821e4fd40---kiwafefofudeturepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12aa90537fe5609b11f95e7cf84366f/fovisugovafiwamofoxijomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/zegotozena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dffcbc265---tizokuzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854bcd52b55---76071544847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091322a4dc94---86533897374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4779a131b069571cf117e2a6525c5a/wurototag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/33124846344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/48123806053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609719afbb286---bigalajewokupunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d915b171d---lurugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1qehn34bgjk85vb0tdpvpmdjb/29339872547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427agjbrc1ftc7n0kanb1v3nb9/63338853660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c47e8b5f7c---fivogujiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210528074621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/80642257211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/virimixebokaxixamowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sum+of+n+terms+in+arithmetic+progressionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C6 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_01_sfnt_off00010bf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF3 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 2fdc940e6764c21e9c7da7613d57d29dbc69c625e7c95a18600d90bb43946323
font_02_sfnt_off00012587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12587 19184 bytes
SHA-256: 2495719483f60b99992bc7ec2144f106516217b0fca446b9dae5a1c5f028240a
font_03_sfnt_off000157f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1