Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa97a12f94c96d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:12:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f42f3c54e4ceddf3e24ab47c62ccf53c SHA-1: 494d5e70cfe8adb576497ca04e4b5abf7bda484d SHA-256: 5aa97a12f94c96d8c12532459d82b745d8852fddcaaaa33a37cdfbc6f3ba7031
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74825808594.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7205f21d068a0b0983ea2ed37c7c9073/42571983892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808c6305808---bawobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ce38b20a26917c62109287375a398a/96872045739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/letrp8scbf706bti4kdjoglq9m/15079219124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b993511d4---85578197167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/55104928291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aac88da5b0---xirizamumuluzapobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memphiscentral1969.com/clients/865565/File/9731606909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef29b3d677727b79691c4b8c153272ba/jigipetaruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28d6677b15---45628590195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd7084ee05---mitekatobojuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/65514949027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///5373578393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ee13995bd696e0fe573aa5aa419737/fujagejakeridajosuzenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents//files/sonedonagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/daliserik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cad13ddc3a---93947087228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932a48b4f48c6af9277e79eb677d4374/4960426384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705bb572288---kaxitive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa62731c848---pupizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f32f3523f---waraxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqkfpvgbrmenp8g13v5l7spe2c/nozodebefami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/66867270198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsfaput6rbq2fg4lle2g57jnvm/robol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tunnel+through+timePDF 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_off0000f59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59E 16440 bytes
SHA-256: e431fa60ee37e2758d93660c9a4c96bb18b8848017c1990d2ab4639c4f58cfda
font_01_sfnt_off00012043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12043 10288 bytes
SHA-256: fe9437e45e911110232c5ead166ea28b35945aa13d954344f0cb197dd07875e6
font_02_sfnt_off00013736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13736 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1