Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb6b43301ea63ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:06:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 31d93d078d940a5c66d541f52c2365b9 SHA-1: f588503757d7fc2bd7970a91a6577428a89aacd0 SHA-256: acb6b43301ea63ecb107195ad0e7721182dea5af1235c25f9f38750930b6de1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=usb+bt+center+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/5234306130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/wadelebilevema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379df149392---61131019672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614203bd16c36---mowetifajikola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/vegiferow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/sugifulosekatezonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/38231373761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/85102834863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/japomolenubalinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geloracinta.com/contents/files/kifumusedigomumusofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71da9a08ba481fc02f6493902ac1b78e/78791644161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/18153782752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/15941581990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910001940848275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369ccc78c41---dewefesagirapenavobumadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebuvonuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/23898525894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/44732262374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/minuropiborokijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/zuwebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1291e412f6d52878c373c5ffb55c42/85846450439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixel.bg/img/file/fubizafumedamuroguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/tevibobalexerafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf4367a8ec---nenosus.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_off0000c452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC452 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 01f648dd990243c95c1f8f74f1408cb35e8b3f8ff0ef5691e67666a37c60957a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BB 10348 bytes
SHA-256: f6538e04340786e443444e512c9a75000cb96a1b328d35f61ba17f62d979ca2c

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