Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac6d3c3493cfd1ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 17:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e1305c5b6bbe7edb9a02928210e88602 SHA-1: 44ebe1c4f8dd3f47be41f59ac1560e2e55f05887 SHA-256: ac6d3c3493cfd1efeee77b818d4080256b26c12de97bb269c0bf37f1b5b9278a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with several heuristics pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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=jearl+walker+fundamentals+of+physics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://egc.ecrom.work/syo/files/12976883610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/digup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/24620826853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210921150859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gppacdatabase.net/userfiles/file/todimirovubakolilutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/dekikezamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ywint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1632343960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/80704602197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifovizeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballmillfactory.com/d/files/nanidufimiruxuwedixujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/nopurabejagewurego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/fasonekata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e54394808---13577117531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/vofabipajufaduvixuwekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b346758a09---wiralavubolizedabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8fd731521---vofedojuroleresuxigobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/48467992796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/bemonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/54859253149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/punobixeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426455c5ca9---16780593588.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_off0000cbd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E4 19016 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef5d6dd16363b49a94425ed5c81fa8f214f046cf8dc957ef18fd4e840354996
font_02_sfnt_off000115c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C3 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 37b930fee47b192db655447a7f6a67625c3deec6afdc71e4322f0770eba49ef5

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