Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acc1f7252dbf74c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 21:14:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 90fd21cd40e494723bc59d8debefe20f SHA-1: 2aba78714fcb380781bf012f9ef2088b7b4d877c SHA-256: acc1f7252dbf74c229dca6617505f325ff31b7eb488a9498a4ee593311d08694
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a QR code lure further supports a phishing or redirection-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/voruwojeribadigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/73302376178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/girevaforojiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/77224843890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/45873402892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvservice.it/file/natonisadolowigubafowora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/21992380484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/beveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/23964261379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/24029454481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/paxidofiforaxuzodode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4d7d8092bf---69245265015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4af41eopcr9a6c0810221ia1m/67615263987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olivier-frey.ch/user/web/file/defofinirodekipisuralavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f06a956679---59651726929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe12f625f1a---kopore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f475b1eabb10876501797e00068865/ziwowenanukukifina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/33574711611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/36043470795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609887452b529---nisowozininavalovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1206704399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb360d72a7---78368241841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=beyblade+burst+turbo+qr+codes+valtryek+v6PDF 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_off0000e9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F0 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 84b1ced39a171a09534831906c454121d6824038ad4524d8d1ef9061972a6229
font_01_sfnt_off000103b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCB 19596 bytes
SHA-256: 52aff8ee7ed40fdc6c88735f4ed7e7737feae2ae271f32b6d7837007933a0532