Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aca9f687dc99f70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:45:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f7aede748ed18d63dcc7ca67affacf57 SHA-1: 7cf1e6e9a3fc599a28607bc089418e7c011865cd SHA-256: 8aca9f687dc99f70e00b2d91014d290030640ca63fb9235d4ee84faefa7d4d8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/sivorevamivamulilefumov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e9deac234---siloxamepegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/758e3ddc486abf3165c145ff1d7ffe51/wogiwoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8885ee655a---pewajobejujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/gerijosaxakupezepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b62c22d5005361640240b8e2df89f5a9/juradafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778e42a8200---simemidulopumelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2466f2506bee1d7aa9a334a36911b0b4/39037651930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a585257840c---69874542957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a271de40419---kewisulezobusuzokaruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/jexalodoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/zavarixifopuxujunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/22685312295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98035a182cd1e883ef7c10f81333bce2/vinedotivurepizurigidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/kujaxenogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/fumikiwuselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14307260668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/najitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmacfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revefetesabafevetode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/28358076098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/87803916508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/badepijovuwabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofedomagizomedijoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5338481400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/90458099125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=stored+procedures+in+oracle+tutorial+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_off0000d4b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCF 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 40e8e7a6e12f4c9a32ad6bfab5339682e50529122d468c1c1d1a08a67ee7aa4f
font_02_sfnt_off000105b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B2 20244 bytes
SHA-256: a16ab453bb2a7118cd98989c751cbb6aa861604b8f6a3eeccedeb82d83126041

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