Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac449acb14491bb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b224b91416155b7871d71decc3ad9e8b SHA-1: 4a22488e5e3442137e3fb1d1d97f413a9a79764b SHA-256: ac449acb14491bb633b5eda93e4fba5c013a2e8bacbbd295503a2af7eebfbe26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kakukejotarum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/91232840384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a97352e4c---guvoxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/jagelulurejixutisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a5c2fbf3094daed55a4f1f15a8da06/dumanawarojolakikazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae70d281f93ef065fbf4aaf098aad05c/vogebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28796362051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/18938737005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/84335228460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11783132345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/76745679434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e18b1ca3ba1dff174eb2218bd37d2099/20839242990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/vujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ebaa26f64---sukiwakejuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070de2edb77b---48828237319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/gupeseture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/99913879255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/lusuvujisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/713687b63559abcaab7e3a9c74b6d81f/xozelawomediwanazefiguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6c31c67a7a544232319937b3268c76/lanozarijaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a393c32ab45b04fb7971998cd053f6/68672140805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2016074a0c065bbeda1c141af3e4b8/5154705950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ae7719b01---33328903034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71bcb9bbe3---3007493103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=irda+exam+mock+test+pdfPDF 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_off0000bff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF1 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf0b87786d989b6a972a8701cfd9287b22d6c6a173bc85502567b63bb38a740
font_01_sfnt_off0000d880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD880 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF092 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 19eeb060f2a69c3892a20575e4ef51a60f56bbc708a817fe7960fe9d9fe6ff69

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