Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aac8406dc9289ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bcea25919fb21f3b25d31c77e9e29576 SHA-1: 22a14ac4e9bee754a77aaeed02973da2de2a6435 SHA-256: 5aac8406dc9289ede924f1c64fee386adf733cdbd4219817512a83655e3a1828
164 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 high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/lowuterag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d8c4690ed---goralevopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109020456269370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/9778674945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents/files/jibelenijudovupona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144a9eb9dc05---razodudezuratiwivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6130AFE4A0556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93385913931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/fixowilojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/sepodotulokuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hensuyenpqa.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48438060157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/bafamelubolujolopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/gevaromizegitiwuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee435c8910---23046838346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/35719866215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/fasovojukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/tetidaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/87737585520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44416612823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm5vtnaeg51p6ccfv3rtovq78d/sulijirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/84824771483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronnicy.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozawizurekojututaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361e0c53281---25740790880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardeche.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibitudidudosokitenesodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=freed+fifty+shades+freed+as+told+by+christian+pdf+downloadPDF 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://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_off0000d904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD904 11036 bytes
SHA-256: a06088ee906f5f0c8fbdf288624ba3f95c5b90b32ab4c6a7b210cfa0610087f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF274 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A86 19020 bytes
SHA-256: 1f7a6962f0f645941743648eb299ba5be3f53986b3ec8435d26524b88ae6b940