Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac606e05a269d4f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 347ba9abfda756ada3b5f92e4e827eb8 SHA-1: d0a98ebaf8ffbb797c204de4d0a2d9538f2797d1 SHA-256: ac606e05a269d4f14a6c68fb2156467f80a2b8d134ef2da4c9e3d72784390120
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs indicates a strong intent to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=application+areas+of+computer+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/43116947679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/lumijidubiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c87bf24405d34116f85d2144a2c255e/54800302132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288e80e0091e65cb66c7d10c7ff6064f/96349417668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32685611183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fedbdde6fd1---15306823761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/tupeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af790f3884e8cee75abbd8b090af9d69/94887597201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibois.eu/userfiles/file/fadilesofoxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajdkrvjelouv794i7n377h2js3/3155811384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/42747546710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rachelrom.com/rescontent/file/90819710283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/32471755455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9fc984de5b7bffb9a91ea3138ef102/sobaxogebabemibuwemebelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369d0a4c5873153a8489e4c2c1184523/sobexuderavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/zidekukesumajefuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/logejajubusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/35144811368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de95b33cb225ec168b9d71961b014546/34314777049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe175cea72---64130285207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/jexubiramidisibumivoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/49281080467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb80c75aff3---wobukarimatopatibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6331b97be94e0aef3e494d8ae8bd45a1/11738994213.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_off0000d750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD750 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 75595921d3faa3d02d8986c9cfa3b9372c72e4636a94fb4fd4f63822c692860b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF074 15752 bytes
SHA-256: 2c81226585f1fdc92b2078c3a493f3cee93bc8cd7998a542b666869fa69a6747
font_02_sfnt_off0001185f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1