Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67acc89c82fc9584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b4c912448370d6e9bc866d115a84731f SHA-1: 14625be08afa5a1f3cebc7389d7c363c5a43cc6b SHA-256: 67acc89c82fc95840dd09e4c57363c71318e2fe58d40aee1ba36b7dc61a55c5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure victims to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzejanefube.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/wumexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4af7341c2e7361f4a16a47acf7207d3/wamalijider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/wokeveguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d58017f1e6---70331258408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/246893adae926623b68a4c57320c2f3e/gavawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43e295a18a16ba563b93137a0a8bcf18/11734669952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/18341674860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en99dpbg55vrskc0ln6epgh624/kitokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/59283758309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7741934d45---gurawirefasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/rogufufefedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/2156449715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/96046247456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/vikinowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/lifotejomotumuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce1a65e304---7605448297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/gazopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afce4d110e3---gewopunebidogamuvejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3528dce29c990857daf6ce66f6906738/61286550968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/punedusopoxigareruvagegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5c58b3f86e272c4f7ccebba6edcf638/90518321135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/37208618568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=project+to+pdf+converterPDF link annotation
    • http://medlab.webd.pl/upload/file/10414647991.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_off0000d645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD645 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 5701797e5fe79a2d93b6fe3c9bbd3035daa602c3d81178c79f43697eaf07b11e
font_01_sfnt_off00010151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10151 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 4972e86a4dd7799c920c0b06ba7b690c739b7267543edc694be468538429ee68
font_02_sfnt_off000118cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1