Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dac288521e918156…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:57:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 44621eece578a4075c6ef021ac2aa944 SHA-1: be5f7353bdf0d7c46a88ded1e7adedf098723228 SHA-256: dac288521e918156bd7f751915d393ee7cf92c20b68180858629933f34c1d260
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown or potentially compromised domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/tavivezuwenuvinesogumuwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/fepikutubetagofopabogeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/sewugafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolegium.inaheart.org/upload/files/piwojiseguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pharmabiosolutions.com/filespath/files/20210917093740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/sasupodotikepekowageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219111759308959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/zadinoxakenutasurazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345b5d41f78---renifalegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumovoxaribaxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f0421765e8---dodokiwubikamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/xumefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/wijewegivifagezedome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33631900834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/23073192083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/72286611920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6eba7147c---pedumenuxojokedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powamarixutirijaretoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinesupplier.cn/data/product/file/2021914_165842_716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/54737831570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cee1beaa68fecbbe4b3b62aee4ee9cd/37072777310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/28285447858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zilokefetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles/file/gezeravorikeganozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/tunanobubenepinibuwekotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ley+de+parkinson+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_off0000c7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AF 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 1809c23db60170b4591d46c44748caedaacac36498a37aeeb251854e31d9384c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF3 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 74a3981a8aff8853a688200fdef8ec20c73bfea841e727b2a821462f78f05219