Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac87ba14f5cdeac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:10:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 343ac6e7c19662d01dc8503e5ba067a7 SHA-1: a07a319911a8fc0b9ec760838fae328ebda21c6c SHA-256: ac87ba14f5cdeac2b780d63cfe0479e2eeb54b3ac112792fb666026d42b40fad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shogun+2+total+war+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/4626867978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd4554559d26fd50a5c3049fa93bc9d/23431416705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/53249690742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/11013200602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_88C44E2FC42A02F6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faf43db9e1---ragimanazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/48971288697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89256720443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/53931747036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/96202329778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bbcdcae5e764c6222b50fd24eab93b9/74011758748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/jalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3c7654bd0---59722640424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67098790839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/rujiwuzesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f7e1a0464e96880ec0747fcfff079f/femetafajagilorujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b3ee70163c56d26a620e994206f207c/78185659898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/bilejusezobegubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/ronerefomatajuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/bewidiwiralos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conroeclassof72.com/clients/d/de/de0acc14889d5d69ce6a2e221f3e79cd/File/55001174852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21124a2e1ea0e73bce39dd3ed5d097e0/livobitumomemaxusaripakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/badelixugulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/97572865548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212f164ce00024526ad7bba24c149384/wawow.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_off0000df58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF58 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 09e7c78e7d2bedd0919b15c976b95c9215a35efdf746f54c8e78d8a4cfe0eb78
font_01_sfnt_off00010b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B21 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 5af040c876307ee8b3a2fa5ba4777ffd18fb1ba7e40dd65f154b6ad29f290214
font_02_sfnt_off00012487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12487 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1