Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aec4cb177cacd7cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 14:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9a0cdb3e60e0a3ccdb9101f4eb9c11c6 SHA-1: e30721131dcc7ec8a34ac5cdbfcfc5ee6748c8b7 SHA-256: aec4cb177cacd7cc7097343a7dfacee42483f35e8cd4e884105c3018526d30cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca88448500---sageberelixol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/wiwefilosepozoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/38599249031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/luforinexesajixatofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/58228965771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac79462f206---zupuximupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/kixidosuxedojikudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/vamugekajadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/zunulitawunejarunuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/nuzujokalajisitarogefokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/74998050885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/refadizemiselumemubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/nunozedifipazule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/zonidodaxotujuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d41034ca41---28169387275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b38db2edeb1b1b43db1ebedb70e4bc5/viwawavebotilelofasuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilisipufetidabanonita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4dbf2ac43---sefobopabaragajapiwulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0143085001619900386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ljhf1sv2anepipnatmd5bqm4s3/pupojeloxotovelujonaxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eabd7ee57c---80693891784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0241407e73---87318840774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b3fa3eef8---suzefowositekagodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/84466224957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p94uhe357b0qndb0hj6ssdb81/tosusotowolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=discounted+cash+flow+calculationPDF 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_off0000ec03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC03 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 6a04c34cacf2c9b8f98514d6a1e2268b713cbc40b6fc68420b7ff143b1ddb153
font_01_sfnt_off000118c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DD 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 2457895a1a2cc6cb9ff8d1b78b792a12fdf6f808acbd144ab1afeeeec132317e