Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aaac001cc5dd9a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:33:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c7e2f102973c4fa793bbb68500658134 SHA-1: c70c60652cfe9d7a3b943664413d48d72aeb4243 SHA-256: 1aaac001cc5dd9a234210ad8b47820d0d94cbeb2af29ec522691fa5552cc6118
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's designed to obscure its malicious intent rather than convey information.

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://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1396931f5532192368f917f7b1f89d80/vaperuwegokagiwutapa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3637101cd2---sigapukebogemexitebavemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749b804c2ab---tizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/zuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/59946218326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/64959338196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/12550206753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/8441091292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/xumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/18363653012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodecoder.com/userfiles/file/7121820326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/bitubusomiwapozudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/wowolakamepofasenanabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7db60421be16ab883b60165184f9fd3/20875171729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/74003920791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/ziregumexizezarapunifakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a246d5791---95883119040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/33952847804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moiarchitekci.pl/pliki/file/54128427488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungototuanphat.com/img-tvdl/files/pexagebaxiguzikeroledapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/44428914894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de9788575d---70835639515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/voxojetesuwutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/8635015637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/241843247635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mutterschutz+2018+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_off0000bebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEBB 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 51ed1978400fefdc6c4be2f4e3daf6e3bcb0dce59abfbc33b96b464a58e45010
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EE 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 5e521e823bbadb531595f18e514a425e263c58e96897f7732d4938f486dd28a6