Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0ace45d5a2c438…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 18:56:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c3ce6b2e975caadd5aede0ef68eb573e SHA-1: c2ae003d16e1fa2a42697b28a9a6ee74ffe0c856 SHA-256: ac0ace45d5a2c4387192fb7171793ab1777382c886791195689d3afdb3266379
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be an image-based lure, consistent with phishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=skullgirls+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/48562684129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/52661588276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincitydata.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/falifemonidigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/42353250288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6636a735bb3a0f2f02723aea6f2f2875/1888589099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/15166748540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/94300661782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614826401035d---28167402589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1387809191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/5859160414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbypet.cz/files/file/pineminakitunobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ministryofrum.com/memlogos/file/4726776102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/55714445730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/pogetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/kalakopizukuxivetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/26190791377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210907170910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210910005944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.elfjane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togugirabuxupemerufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youxsoft.com/uploads/files/magudowifemodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/57759994887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olajpark.hu/files/files/61507143545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/6137d09ce5553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/52655408423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d2a1a0967e---54921823093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatuwhuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/jujawafowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawaasha.org/userfiles/file/bunifufivojuwis.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_off0000b529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB529 10668 bytes
SHA-256: b180338573e9375f2696d51eea579dba4fde01f8bcad8c909222a2c6a50d23b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD53 14460 bytes
SHA-256: 08a0352de7d452ec12c0fa19ea5249995bf293616d9142638654a8d1092b1df4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF176 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1