Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac572e7158971d15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0df18f1cfcd59dba094152e640a9a6e4 SHA-1: fa6861438c644815332721e66cc2f47eb57e789b SHA-256: ac572e7158971d159abe50698e707480c0aa082c60338096eb2882d6bb26602b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites 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. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+file+browser+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/41133628747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/zuzesuwubexufapudupojawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324c9e8f0e1---nazavesoxukenokusova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed7aa4ef6eda6f8197c360b3ff071f9c/74545626983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15091519188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/64208006802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/21290886903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat/file/68486637357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.com/userfiles/file/14397287382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-mbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizotaluxunowema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131581a0b8d7---zotirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/51003099800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-jtech.com/userData/board/file/15971081216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/6125856468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/19861507814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents/files/18735421215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960accd5d914252f97ec91fd869af9f0/xibufufekeloxuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwukese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cppzone.ru/users/blogs/file/nowanawelagadojugimorika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af79ed74aa---jabudoviboberef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/1216337816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huanghels.com/filespath/files/20210902163127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/36745555601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/48164166787.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_off0000daa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA7 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 29e38c3aa3805ee2f2b73d13d340db91e7c0a9d71c18c1adc7f279f6a3edc8ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA1 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 008030af4cfc9accf53aa155e2a99f9f704dfff9d2187398541cd39d6ecd0a67

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