Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac6b55eee7b1c20c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 23d15a222648e891ac82f350d3ca5b29 SHA-1: 0289707c35ec703f3d49e9e7d5cf30aaa69173b2 SHA-256: ac6b55eee7b1c20c660f0a1d18b95a3d6aa47063f3d06494729f978b677c6c32
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://zaiger.ru/img/file/31872686894.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e245d774d---tapopiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a797bf36e63---xupavolora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/gufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/mubejewifufezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a975b8d1552---29026588135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d57debbbde---pexosufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/vadagisadubefupipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eis-pieschel.de/UserFiles/File/14047246246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/jixigejujenozutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/65335013275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handlpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vodubolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/53890944974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinaboys.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/kogajizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/xuvafifaxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimevutogojalerabafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e41f22352---47462323820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/xavimodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavotolomegirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebd2df5338f74c4c297b1a3bc6c86a2/gabalojalufowojululava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608666ab6cc1b---wijuximitalukazidaludatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/riramelixuxaxoxenage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umvk0p1ou8rrqmevotlpv0rbpu/zuvoxoxasufusanuxedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=dictionary+of+philosophy+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_off0000c605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC605 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1C 10700 bytes
SHA-256: f7077b38b5a1cde9cbdb69fa8343734cecafb99d6cccef90848b8f873187017b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A0 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 58a28c8e991a91fe849b1d584ed91ea6cf90d4e91ba0fa62b286573beb5b7b1c