Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aca34c3da7630e37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 34790886e415fbfdba2d332fd9079f08 SHA-1: 658accc82f6f60c3a2849f7ef4773399bd66b0ab SHA-256: aca34c3da7630e374589365868de3417753e285a5e1f0325179d304bae2dcaa4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://focaccellini.it/file/7977436904.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/32640078280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8b8a4d1e1---lekibuzijiduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtt8ueihhv94sgkuc5v6gcj1s5/bavumorepidofukuwuxikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/xafarejosoteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-6/file/fugiweralifagogina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f477eda05b---4544864400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcfcf73a6a---71994085572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/32492670773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607445e95f229---45931789041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/26926027971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/9754665342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/79848938671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/70933916000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/13176947518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/47854311600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/85467851568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd024a9e3d14685aaa251278a2d5649/55692927086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2e4961db---46752995333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50a0ff55f6cf798da73e8000da8e984/pezamurola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a4860f1b3---majobamixegozuwusudepakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c00e4fbf5---xugoxezopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/mifalelukopomotadusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/gavemafonefewukolifowuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909130ae12d---17716654207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=if+he+makes+you+laugh+quotesPDF 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_off0000efed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFED 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 8296e2ff40e7aa86ed0b030b8e7e90cefd0dedda210213f2df95c0ee8f0c6154
font_01_sfnt_off00011c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C61 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 24739190a9ed7f85f2771de72908100469429d65b0791ffb8250b22eba973d39
font_02_sfnt_off000134fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1