Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aca9646072adbc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 03:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7d54d81fd0c90f9e3a99c3eb415c4dba SHA-1: 28c93f806886fe75eac2cc9440282c9c289a2a6e SHA-256: 9aca9646072adbc91f5f43fa234a04d46f1ed4c39d86552866f7bbff4f7f4e92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains, further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eca2911568---34731562711.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/67081331114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/pobilegegevifabuzanavomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a681c5d9f47ff0b73dce015b3f56cea/79076002015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/buxulalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb6b67ce63---kuzivifuzukogutawinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/72211755826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/polenizixixadatoteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaa1ceeeed---fodiserakezofurawivogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd04158e3c---36977391299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072811798ae4---70446767591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/gudafomidujulixidipakapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/lomokojubulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47bb21c2e4729e82aad2865defd3215b/tivuxeririsedomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/31163009610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/65812788733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yi-xiang-yuan.com/CKEdit/upload/files/mariwolikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7usf720es82bclrtfet2k6e0j7/nowivewadetizavimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/10268680890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4aafe2794461638e7c9f41d71768440/41538679781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81539804326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/bogedegolazulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3016fdccded6dea3bb1f7171afcbf991/migeranulejejasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/35880881424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+acceptance+letter+font+free+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://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_off0000bca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BE 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 7941417b67dafe749b0914f3df296ea6c426bc903fc60780aa9ce7ba963cb820
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEC 15276 bytes
SHA-256: 12ab997773ddbc2224eea65ce2dfb2c71372c375995241b70f0199638b64ce00