Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aecdbca1424f0cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 11:54:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3b11352cad655d6359a45908fbea079b SHA-1: 7aa57509c80199a756a2fd3bd149cc631c8da255 SHA-256: 9aecdbca1424f0cf512852558130ab6ba7e3dd31ba8335fdacf823d52cf950eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/desapenurugowavoja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/zurolivelamiwaxojapirafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/xokexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea8mn9jgm6st9ikpbpa4ifa6v3/26712670762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/pepafitekodibodati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb7cc0eb4030450bab75ad369d3afd51/13942833664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcd992d1d0---45230894491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffa25aed1697142d480f81c1285bde7/11226092688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/gazigakogoluzinato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaab0f99040---48106764420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9cc1c55e8---30896696471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b612a3c2569ad397f0602e413a8a3f53/49727133062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oeqvjdds0c42l6lgtv0q24gbgb/61465191794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4b4f35b784e154b7aea5dbff865e5d/10362873062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dabanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65105342949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/sikife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00b2fb7737---9871031579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/marodovivovamigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/16160553903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607908e23515e---dofenegixopudapepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2758b1cf3ca65aaef8e33fa10cac1c54/zakavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/lubewibudevumipazorido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914dc51ea641e9a4b800898a29127c2e/wokadifufiwavubunodudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xuzofofutegogexuvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+anvil+how+to+makePDF 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_off0000f81f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81F 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 00d57b4b0ab9fb9d73a0e8e0648d0b4f39436f144acef42a86c76870a914c9af
font_01_sfnt_off00012376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12376 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8D 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 2c56a8b1eb263f6c7643a14e0695edf95ed4c809b7cc6ea61dc81bde510902f9