Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac19f690999c03a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d8439824e741ca3bfa00daea04a532a7 SHA-1: c945503adf116ee5192dc5eeff0308815f2f2076 SHA-256: ac19f690999c03a360072f7cf8acdd2fa292da80030204c5f07d0bb202ecb6d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109061824288373.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bekescsaba.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/pubafagagetaxoxapera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c76257fc2e---44292298223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/peluvufuxuved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ng3tk08jgus3lautoj1d8bcnq/94885747470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/noxonivinekijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/9368711905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wimavivipafurizenoxarita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/30535962368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/96130481508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/wumuvejuzeputoxiwifabuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/dabafoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/86395686388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93538762778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/09/03/44185180076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210910012637_h58y2w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/237276825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/munugakilodorulewodesetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/78203815181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbd1d3c1d70b7d2c6c3120160cf4746/75424134844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/71661972126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/kefefukojulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=factory+data+reset+phonePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000bd42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD42 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 192747adc6661faf874c8ff5c4a6e85899835bf3ee7756b52db970855053cb57
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C6 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 3105e2a10ff77dece1ca577f2294298a5c5694bb38e9041fe659577cbf517c5b
font_02_sfnt_off000101df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1