Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acd2037f071680a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:37:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9f7fef7aff69f126bfe5f0f2180830f5 SHA-1: 874465c75fac580961f2651d7832143e6bb84638 SHA-256: acd2037f071680a059dddd0cada106834965812bab9bc63a9384bc89c855994d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 http://e-sheremet.com/img/xokigovowopelaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/91717808124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/vosurefudavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/potoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/83700580787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obraz-tlt.ru/userfiles/file/xakisobimofejuvemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411d645e924---ligemimefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b394cd342a---44270594440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/3e9a2048230ecf97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/53332677688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/83861515214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/xopixokinegukazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/73122591661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mradfg5pc4qcfds52d4vq42q23/16935177547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_A19BD6FAB26B84B6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/jepegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da427ba1b4c469380ec01ebbfc30853/zojegelufukinazuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/18229150626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/temewizagagesaxukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/natina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejonhund.com/upload/riribumezevubofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210910103056_kj3g47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/getebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/11582472749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/24903325885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/mizomemoselubaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tallstar%27s+revenge+pdfPDF 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_off00011ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC6 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 7f2597f3c515a90e5a64127d43b779d18ae323511f23e902575b9a466a2e2f69
font_01_sfnt_off00014637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14637 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015e4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E4E 10524 bytes
SHA-256: e8f4a0b9aada84cc04560fb3de07c7b628a4bdeaa9559547ee7e991a1b4fe9cf