Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6acf06fbaf94236d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:56:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 612755f5e8453a10a65aa5bf32e03672 SHA-1: 3c13e3f369411fa117d1f97d4fee36857d1ac6c1 SHA-256: 6acf06fbaf94236d253c321c9c633175426785cdfa1517b477a1a4057e7c2924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=matilda+watch+now+free PDF link annotation
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vatovozefopemidivusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbk-ingatlan.hu/uploads/file/33811312958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuvesoluzozagexifumirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burbank.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/97503041992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/videkak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb15ba6c25---sepero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904124742221808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210912180308119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613051ae323fc---77205927719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/011750488388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtaisay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vepakisodapupizuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/sogitalilalakidiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef775cb6b7---61739976972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabigivozotukidoxukawoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/roturebibokawadewaxejuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwemfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/benetaxoxawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/55964008076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/neposofexifobavazipexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/nolexekatezawomoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202109101122081161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gidunotomimodoxexomigumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/doberitaxodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/77732523996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpennarak.com/user_file/file/raxodaxetazimabalijaboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/kosefati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2d0de918b---japulitumejifimotules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/58711927@N04/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://www.flickr.com/photos/58711927@N04/'sIn 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_off0000f924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF924 19356 bytes
SHA-256: 3f465ba6765647e3d189e2680702116ac7ce5b36881ab44e80557c5b00e5acb8
font_01_sfnt_off00012b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001434f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1434F 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 320da68e880f1be9e6ef42e45c9bc6c106a061da0d5aa1d33e649bde7b51db27