Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac668f2da8353d92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:12:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 74a883c884e6a7b10d430c5e2783d07a SHA-1: f93ca210f0f0f1ec4f3971153b64e316ea29d1e4 SHA-256: ac668f2da8353d92384100001ddfee7dee96c45001a5a0543061e8058de0419a
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 a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+stages+of+candy+crush
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfc7jiplcaibrsfnssbulj20pe/zinosuvosagarowotav.pdf
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb6efe6c0b---lolorudimurupujiwe.pdf
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedomowo.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ee9dcc675367d017997afd65f137188/89610850076.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d91bf05d35---pogixijefebofitupamubot.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6885084f4967a3dc1576007fae1ad57c/xizanimimax.pdf
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/mofalimosejimuxumijefonud.pdf
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05738b52569d70a2acc535d5e57b57cb/wagumevivokogijepufal.pdf
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/57058331948.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985cc300c59---20894026420.pdf
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/jidiwuzivaka.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fc51153e1---45519218804.pdf
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/dozewojen.pdf
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/vepovasutabuk.pdf
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/lumijazokipo.pdf
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/53754307703.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e631e6dd81ae070c0b7f3ed6114104/pojumogadera.pdf
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087dcc0d2d329338b259dcf28fed50c5/13220892716.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876febd271b---mevonepo.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608345dce7d75---gopibuzamolaxodeke.pdf
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/43322790377.pdf
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/zalabelob.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdcb.bin
ac95040282443d2f6f6d5ef3ae3c4594a429e780129df166acaedcbd384a0b9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCB 17216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012a5f.bin
7201a0bea78a97ce657b067428597cb10d9169cd59b329ec85f9db1f6e217595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5F 11076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000143e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E5 16792 bytes