Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09aca1c2b28130ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:24:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fcc31de9f98481b34a2a8cbe0b53f9b0 SHA-1: d16859c83450313a377fe0e1c793562f131b5b82 SHA-256: 09aca1c2b28130ad27e3c5063a674f614e1685ff60579a80d028fba0f6302428
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on compromised CMS uploads. The PDF contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious content, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f66476ajknciv2t5dusicumu7/nugixulabizorelogutiwim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ecdcb1de---74422833864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c97d5b877---63991351989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/fikujibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99mbg09ivussnv8ahlb1ia68h2/45764968680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aad69b595b---bojogikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714cd454800c7ce7adfdf7ee50cc3ecf/67863946151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56f0d6dab5---segiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/26198659538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///70956217173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/21242477032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/30112408226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ad1cbce7c---valarobodokuxowukono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/sosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/wigegadujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/82715854367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b64813c20---toboxopuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607783bb033df---notubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/23797463421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d01ee32e86---gobebapawuvakalavikibiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210625151257149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b45567099---52606850967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/74781346720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wghsclassof69reunion.com/clients/b/b3/b33699c65747f61a54cd06c2fab73d22/File/24535008668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ham+and+cheese+biscuitsPDF 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_off0000ecd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD5 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 8f825d8f266c7992e36b252813c32e10a7234348f6813970ab76be7d9011575b
font_01_sfnt_off00011a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A02 10600 bytes
SHA-256: fb14d2b0e8cfea15779a14f3ba6e9d1a0f44820e6ecf45b70b013f5d0b6a4028
font_02_sfnt_off000131f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1