Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa17e5ce0545d8d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8873c6bfcc1c572bad36255abf0298c4 SHA-1: 878a1d55a7964a34cd27f51d5b6e0b5c14c5de18 SHA-256: aa17e5ce0545d8d72fe15c67001386a66dcda0c72e1dbb8be67b3da3ff8af199
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or other malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b416fec8871---32093190944.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng0q1v5kdcu0fpnhmpbk6e0i60/59350737551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjv030ccr54sanp191ejjis7i6/witosisepifunoxuputike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844943b8f2c---28095378906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e82347f4af0c2d42235bab813e3c16/10171990060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rufgk73sfegtafp9rdnhmdln1/62708872309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/10238452813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a13e35cc5c---22466693710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/18831255561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///kilizegaxepujefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/13960883475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ea2f91de7---zukatuporofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/lonagupujikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/jupofosiwajewarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e77345bdfe---dewitunesufexetekamozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/63805733276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0217a2f85---milesakovimawaxokega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corghialberti.it/file/roreve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c8e44d306---74925476998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/6038919690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8nicqhut2guqls019r2csit5i/22587740992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e57f644b081fefa339d5d76e56b4a2/52711405380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cd759c392---33827376478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e08bdbdb2---15052939441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+difference+between+dehydration+synthesis+and+hydrolysisPDF 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_off0000f58d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA4 10904 bytes
SHA-256: c5656056ab8fcc53abb5e2d434ba7aaa3d862919126ff851f524e37ffbe1d96c
font_02_sfnt_off000126e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E1 16264 bytes
SHA-256: ad7fb2bfa2edc5508bada9353b3c64382b1f1d67d724cd257e4cdced977f923d