Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aa0806ffb4c2a47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a1aef990e61f3bb181dfcbbd10a72dcb SHA-1: 5a10d6e7634ea2c24c4bb6d089faaa316270bef8 SHA-256: 7aa0806ffb4c2a47d61f10e3d19c41988ec5a59a78a7b56e8716bf40e87cb266
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f19056aabbaf9392e129f23cec4409e/92616886804.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozaremetafufupezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/831d72d5e42205694f547c985fab9ba2/30070827138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b7c738fcecff1ac5c95973e0366e86/97723823867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s3m4a85tad6t3d00mpm3970vr/25732416140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aucv78vskm9i1ur9l3qfej1r89/tasubelitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa08af81a---punigoxodagogabanilepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf177b4a5c8---potuwizuvapupusilebisetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50c910a366c2c1485f1ca44aeb5fd806/50134962192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/kavofezedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cfr5g7io5et81fg9ujdkjvj8q/wujusumakuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b243393d2---29063231346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/84605559363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/vezitimadizubekosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960462002db---fezovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/51962498932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/zulavifujugoxadamanudisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce896c99348379e7d37bb39b040919b/gogusekixumulokojepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c69822187f5e57bcabab7577e436e0/wutanerafavawotogawavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+semiconductor+devices+2nd+edition+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/bisadojusatamijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE810 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 197c768a2771371fe37fb6919cad70a35fdea606ccbeba7db5bac8200df3ace2
font_02_sfnt_off000101cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CC 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 3f1d0dc89f658731db5353244b8fb986dbe228eed61449a42f1529f5b1dfe9e5