Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acfe5dbbd2d12eb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:44:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f27d08f1e5cde5fcef5a35ef223b9682 SHA-1: 6dc9ad78f9ee68d400bedb464b6e78d1f18ab088 SHA-256: acfe5dbbd2d12eb9ea1110fba8b2f0cedafcef817a60b3b9079d46bf073547fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Numerous heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, such as https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=banjo+kazooie+n64+emulator, are likely used to redirect victims to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=banjo+kazooie+n64+emulator PDF link annotation
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d10bbed67139f56ca874f252fd4cce9c/jujefesufofufepofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8424dd8a1---nulebisarunorosukaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/fapetokasomenadura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/zitafasatuxarudekone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70417343605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/vumaxanotasuwovufavenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieubaooncachnhiet.com/userfiles/file/99904353323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durevodawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/85168323678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/virepanudaruwabezidibari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/xotajepuloworatisivimifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/xemolefuxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f0d5272ff8---30474382335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/63873522056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33275519028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614062a866156---48398643574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/56522744037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c3e876424f5a46b23a48454123086a/85814858098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/dubozigedimajamowimotebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/90658270868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613862833e819---fimoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381d0e91612---gubojujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c59eace48e---73436321993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntpof85h9s740t18a5dlagn5ur/13556989080.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_off0000ded8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EA 21044 bytes
SHA-256: d773e5434ceb6d38641ac75410a5758e0171b79f95040a4860e7ce9088ae06fa
font_02_sfnt_off00012d74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D74 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 4dd74b803ae0f0d023449ee202d8d64ec656401ab01a390f7d4f4b47351f6211