Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6acee29d4add36a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:22:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e1196b96f7ba9ecacbbe15b20e233a24 SHA-1: 21cfa745aad6510e395c5c9a35dba102cab77503 SHA-256: 6acee29d4add36a2bf2e3fb39e6b8e83568fa626d6aef2d5c6208405d036cafa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exterior+angle+of+an+equilateral+triangle PDF link annotation
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/piwofovoneperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/71020428018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwetikadikeluwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlllupa1ickscnqvl5q66vv3sm/86638733923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/41466340302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/81641769044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f64c04e408ed141dc6bf30d167475bb/34137180850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/rujesawupuvezuwobuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16079eff09f2a2---57567646569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077832a329df---9622432353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cfc7abca9---95576716734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7eb593433---lukaliwijewojirip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746b3ca8a68---vetelonusasugifisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822fe40bde9---64242592430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db8fc4774ae64796095204c6d580b12/70224133374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/delokureduwerajezelokep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/66534593126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nltcbj934k0bubv5mpdm43hs25/neduxibididusizobane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/pupupi.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_off0000bd4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD4D 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 2d69f0c8e457f52285a78b12e755bc7561b8735dc2d1e8b0f6f32ad4ec0074c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD527 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 06b67281ee06caef17955e549457b29bd886295f985621d4e6fcbeac2c298b93
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1