Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acfe7e9f6fe1ff96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 262c3041731e5ebad1ac10a5368082ce SHA-1: 7282e330b950738168f3cb400c7537e31404fe19 SHA-256: acfe7e9f6fe1ff96ad6009f83e12f55127300abee2c956f306e0110c68cbe59d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service, a common lure for phishing attacks. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish credentials. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the download of a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+pdf+a+ppt+editable+online PDF link annotation
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/48234775230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec296b3f802bb09138b4a87f57ebc471/ragijuxovidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herfon-machinery.com/images/ckfinder/files/20210822025913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4484306799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1970.org/clients/872719/File/lumiwinadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v0ceqptssh83pcn96c4rp69n1/59274534869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/vufegatowemabekoridile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/25205226394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02obl13s931bu5o8irb1d5es8/64189272824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/79166168627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/tofutexenixuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcdpiti.com/userfiles/files/89786116646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31f6a1791a---jugafutaluxemamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/42059858475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210808092135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wegotevexudikogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/27230836941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210520054205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildonhope.org/file/46227112351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmteventures.com/clients/5/57/576e8e71b788aac95a268099fab76a3d/File/5617432274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/lisusidejupupewaderal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75b06e06fffb7b2cda05ed1097e774e/52097326187.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_off0000f1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C0 17776 bytes
SHA-256: a4dd270f8973c5f8c65239d63c19b9fa6651aba97efe8b7afef4732591fbb2c4
font_01_sfnt_off00011f76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F76 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 5935f00a1abeeb3465c353a55427e0909044373147efe9a788852e2d6590b92f
font_02_sfnt_off00013774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13774 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1