Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acfb171a82842d32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 05:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8af0a17f85f712464babc9458c244413 SHA-1: 77bfad28acddc9793cc4e96ec54ee7d0ff86b59b SHA-256: acfb171a82842d3283e4784d0ef551ab0ad2116e67807f3ef4f44de3c3df82a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting a phishing or trojan distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/29889265850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/93668176329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnk90n5ccukvfn98vt9t484hok/kaforiselanudatopina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca4d619a993---fewawitupadefutujelowopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejinukawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e765dca59---xedubosinuxakowamefopevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb793ec2ac7---wiritubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4337cef6ed2dedf31565fd75602c9c2/57909169278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/vibunupigezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/60054894719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8d8d17b58---43973616797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161001c0a7b710---84062276070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b7f25571091---xulugipugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c26126ef74---12782426796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1205d07fc1764865ef17d3e988c2352/79780764787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/mofuzenelezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg1p8u6h3u38fvvu59pm3deta7/50832057065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/kadopidedebararive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c328cb9c173---11778347402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/33886331242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/67151647973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/96925869981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdbc97f0cdb---fukovebesutaderobenitepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+earth+science+geology+the+environment+and+the+universe+textbook+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf95b556decdda09321c9fe88c04b72/walulum.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_off000147f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16003 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 3561b655466a44596ac94ae7920cf82b04a9c7f200565aa3bc718807b72afbb4
font_02_sfnt_off00018bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BDC 11556 bytes
SHA-256: 0f983d6eaef5f76b4857664f83af90f3a50b54388789d2531d13ba8e4e6a8b20