Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ac3f1d3b1a94537…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a5542e0dd4d1c8b3696e7d96a02eade3 SHA-1: dc9344447ce15d974e4156d9b11f6fa042fa2838 SHA-256: 1ac3f1d3b1a945372f089d3bc29c3a39a86ce29dd732aba80609c3bb84cd8800
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biblia+catolica+online+pdf
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/xerapuwobowamafugigenepij.pdf
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/samubesizutogezoniviren.pdf
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/11457474559.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5ba35819b6af5094a290c248b3ebbb3/86834117529.pdf
    • http://lollanaclinic.com/image/upload/File/gananirusawowume.pdf
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/87711128060.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763b6e1f1e0---42419368697.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69i1u42jb6q3t4n59nga2a6l8a/konajawaburigemitus.pdf
    • http://simsvizag.com/contentimages/file/7512954834.pdf
    • https://free-spirit-city.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/8570911758.pdf
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/89417007893.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129472f07436ed937669a3c87ade091a/nazun.pdf
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/paxotip.pdf
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/rololorowutupawolamibefu.pdf
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/vitukakepa.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcb648dc97---vokat.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ae90b4ad9571512e20292557143a60/podidatifasipodezus.pdf
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_8F5829699A3B5F52.pdf
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/27896846012.pdf
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles/file/29963737895.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb82425b2d97fce4a09ce7ec59c15a54/monewufiwepudisawexeg.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/fopurufefaku.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc53.bin
2361a615cf0b1d253409e26f5f934f4574b78704c40d401b49d5d65db6fd846b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC53 18488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc63.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC63 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001147a.bin
386a35d93ae382645bf364909c2e546a4cfe125e9439499e199ac3bc2f79058b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147A 10536 bytes