Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aca3c58752779ded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:05:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7107e696043d75a061ccf36d6d4c0520 SHA-1: fc2e1831cbc5635dbabec1711f3645a8455e3d3a SHA-256: aca3c58752779ded388e172165b83a2e67d8bdb0747825afd43df3bfde6c4f82
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iron+man+game+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202109112323201786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91182960741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/857243b8626e935f6287461ab61a16f9/lapudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://js-space.de/userfiles/file/69473171191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/kedajatagubijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclelandgroup.com/img/upload/file/demipokesokuviromaxisujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/2524668399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/37149945968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c65ea87875e6374b4da105059a06a6a/moruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/86942579155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/16955041600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419adb30471---42235423175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109170931181688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/gazozebepedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/lobukatutojakibuzopubalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/2727929777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasmedm.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6760528511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/bawezoronexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents/files/29766366081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/dufiwudotatapela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/sidogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwedebunuwiniwubeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210904191806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7402a2623f6cc4f372f9a113df80cfd/zabuwefivuvekolerisumapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://value.ae/userfiles/file/gateluxivusipomaxa.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_off00010071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10071 18736 bytes
SHA-256: 0293f0bfc241dcce290f332e3714240c4cc37eece3bfa575b56e7ab0519b33a1
font_01_sfnt_off00013056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13056 10168 bytes
SHA-256: d146783859b9b411d2f0d26a098d0cdded347c860de3fd36abb669c871eac3c3
font_02_sfnt_off00014712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14712 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1