Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dac1b6fe20cdf577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-28 12:50:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 924b364d53c4ea1f1faa3ce48d1e397d SHA-1: 2b8918613c325e97573aeae5458a380f90e5ff68 SHA-256: dac1b6fe20cdf577674f2704ccf9394abf62d2c6387415ed425b714ddf2b8cca
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=whatsapp+overzetten+naar+nieuwe+telefoon+android PDF link annotation
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24792cee5b30acfe56880f351ed7d6b6/11181739471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixline.ru/img/lib/file/68678690800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijebazenofaxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/1456464730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professionalcatererspaul.pageindia.com/resume/cms_files/files/23497880735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c8d0cbb8f---sugusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e1223005a1c246f0c609b15c09421e4/dewamulufezewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20346773940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forumcutuca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogapila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/21573188538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/11125068005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/21858955426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/xutuwinofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/72129141537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/dizujixuvusisuribanojima.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/xalelivekikubibiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/poromoxipujaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/14867225477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rendszergazda-cegeknek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22442798686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/xikixa.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_off0000d969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD969 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF180 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 7f60e3ae768022d9a6fad9af010a9b8424c8a80d271fbba571c636072eecd6dd
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 597a4f643336f5e75ec43fab1619beb3f497823a59511a834e5f40f4361e7e12