Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ac3f1c9d78ca16a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 17:51:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9142de3e1dc0edbef7d30d5b61757730 SHA-1: 6612bdbecfddd5ef176c8fcd99944dbdd27b9599 SHA-256: 1ac3f1c9d78ca16a2b506723093cb35dac64f44929e5374a556ea17cd0cb6327
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gym+marketing+plan+example PDF link annotation
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/8315819778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/xofemakizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vukaragapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a5ef32d64f277f0261c1a42afbf3e0/29912869498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/84556145967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed734f226e74e807f6bf938a0840dcc/zafijesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/nizepabidavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f2d3134ddfc89a7be6e0149eb87a139/farinixase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/lawusinukupadawopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cc1cd4317---jewigofufuxewomizeraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a4b3dfd2d57081f3bd23b09cdd99476/67255417273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210530015540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c9842b1ad---37511678090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/gafinujalodenesirisemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ifqseqd3grqq96v5q74jmcpgc/julojubawewafereju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ad3187bec---41953015764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA07 4904 bytes
SHA-256: 2f62b6347733383c7047369c6ce53490772d619422a745e1491644fc9210d388
font_01_sfnt_off0000faac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAC 9960 bytes
SHA-256: ad8f2ae8f88dc195258e0a65183b6040cba12417448c83ac4cc1a3285892e87e
font_02_sfnt_off00011c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C94 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176