Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aac34c6675901131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:23:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4e360695556ffe2d20bbe1868ae02233 SHA-1: 23721dbd76c4b290a2ca42a0f5810e93376532bb SHA-256: aac34c6675901131dd75cde56288c8be8a971ef1decec0d0101008024c62fd5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=justice+league+android PDF link annotation
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cffaf196a1---kigonozudogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincitydata.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/ragigobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/zaxivizifonobikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwesufezolezanube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/49875899530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/verowuguzinivazakeregado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/pipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cca15b4a7---33572323961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigogurusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/suluwekoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210912091236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/wigogatanunigelubajaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gixajitisebafazaseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopibiverotewowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35509526461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99120399871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/wosusobizudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tivolufimobogomutajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c294a00302---remixulotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/koxebabaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/76101955357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwangtosidae.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/pusogizazigureterezipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/4534606302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/lavuzoxanumizoroniwebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/67306964712.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_off0000e4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C1 18648 bytes
SHA-256: 874279d69bcdf674d029fb161434637e5624d7b147ed1fded90d60f89c0b0aba
font_01_sfnt_off000115e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E5 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 74b49c1f80031994de024a5feeaa72b4779bfcccf93ef4600f3f96a821bc2555
font_02_sfnt_off00012e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1