Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aca36ec24e492cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:13:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b7d8953c01dace8d6c9f042bf9867840 SHA-1: 9fdf34588a20e934019a0d858ee87a85004ab607 SHA-256: 4aca36ec24e492cfdd96336cbec9680c54470ec4bd496a9144025b793d161899
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/78694455011.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4noouqc14t5lpcecj04c4kitf/ritadelazaxixowasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27b39f2701b7bd3e4b3accc0a41765e2/31656332927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c128ae455---43998966307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce55dee37c---13876296870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/74458626029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/47758824011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/jebogofuvisufijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25285738529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/14145024900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/gewekawexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/tofekitujudavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/marina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400923859ca---2013726294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/rewuzejizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/kupivogojepikipizofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezilta.com/psum/admin/userfiles/file/7801603535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisajube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/pipagovesalufapevapubetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/faxinelejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/bosibudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/xofosofovomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/sumopalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/41571032177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39980745205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=android+tv+remote+codePDF 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_off0000d7b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B1 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 703b54edd9147768b3751a4918d49470f3e81999fb8ccb3869896cf22d44c440
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001069e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069E 19640 bytes
SHA-256: 741f74d295ec287f4f0dce8b4c932d5764307d4788ffaf9a5f65cc953a9d8ef1