Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac0c421376ac141…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-07-28 10:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: af83c04ceb8b7ea5763761a0690000a6 SHA-1: c451380339c0ce0b9c254261171c3573846de08c SHA-256: fac0c421376ac14155e2edce5ad1307cc9f79696f3c826f85151b577d7e750ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42f3346934706fbbdb2558335064c57/83548637869.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71645debad4e243fcd58d9c1e4eff13c/13369677918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/nigaxugokiguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f724e7f4dc5770bbb19ab36312c5e4/73631867048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a599a2dfe---zojaguvuxotejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b84e7863f---53008287821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4775dcac4---35898178554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16226202889684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/gabulanusumetidetokurowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcd738355da---bulivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863f8843b0---vikaxisuvinajoxavegitujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917632a4c39---25393232022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51sdpb9plu1koh78cvot7l1lc7/kabolidogejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/54907740532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paneboxodetolozasuwudani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21809996943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/70608410217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/35373631831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatewufizozimiwefijokif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3237337745ac39bec456c43bf6a6263/71743184165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec8e07ae43---21820215972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/66446347828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/vazobazofuragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=apple+watch+ecg+not+workingPDF 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_off00011da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA3 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 8bace60d828440d3a58c91158fa93da1d29b0d72c4ade2aefa1df4779002e4ea
font_01_sfnt_off00014a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16288 10644 bytes
SHA-256: e02ab21537bc5d188bf99d4e31be3d50571b511fb5e2222173d45797330d0b61