Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb848c51c82786a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-01 01:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c5ee18e3b74eb95cb8df78e20d944e8e SHA-1: 7f33dd9b1338e708a589411406a0958fd91e379b SHA-256: acb848c51c82786ac085a04126c76c7e2547c655cb1f25a96e57a732be00d89b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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=cuantos+huesos+tiene+el+cuerpo+humano+adulto PDF link annotation
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/61448918945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/sizufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooj6c5t4toffll09bkft2b2oqk/44404177909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/51878990789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621911317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c8e3c0121b32c2648e2330fe4c5df0/vafatolepimodezarogamofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a17e979083---13962315318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/rowejumuvusuposomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f92805d734---56014080028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/patuzajilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05ee0ba5d18d6fc4069d95c9e74037ce/danuwoxixirozogirokema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd82542547---bazafoxaxuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/jobirixabevifipewuwejepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530b0d4a11d4387e2964abfca04286b4/sozevagegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e441065e2b09e82de1caadc4ad7a78/kerozigimefepopipeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///79285812714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9e0b220df---zutuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9155f9642c---xoxuxofevoparoderuduzuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/308ef3dc6aeec5372a3ab59f721879c4/fubolutogexofomabagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfd664d52c---80837256921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/wegugegewalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewirumovefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/11592256344.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_off0000e84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84E 10912 bytes
SHA-256: ee5857a71676b930523d2e5d4ea6925fdb16f0bb7661259a52c7ec6e94147b6a
font_01_sfnt_off0001015e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015E 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 873f8c48a0c8136f3c7e6695d469d15ba7c1ee3e7df69337a6bee978e024db09
font_02_sfnt_off00012d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1