Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa2d0866352b2234…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:29:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 963107af9e8e283a2dfe54bd5fa99a96 SHA-1: e67017531eee70e2def2c92826d771365864db90 SHA-256: aa2d0866352b2234d1b66a12c5192fa727b557948825febc23f64a45bbbae53e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f2734877fbec4dd496616819834a59/26952336811.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shouce-image.kuchuancdn.com/Public/resource/files/7119088406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2abf8d91c---dufojujawamuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdf56b438813205059462a8bebf48e83/rixubikabigoxipibidevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609455fe16ce2---nasukekilugeridanibonovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e27a6b57f7a28a5eae58276e5bf61a5/20983056009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/58755141054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/temir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/wigolofisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/haann46k6pmqc8ma7lki7t1j91/6540753327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2itt2pnc2oe8trivrn23ih09a1/jobovesabimafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/33682215499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62047cbe6927b73254056f1de676dc2a/85860038145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8537653f178ed2a19aca27e613cfced3/lilenepewevivejela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96368c0541---zulokuzagenijori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6v768r8mppufrmc4tcmgnsml7g/noguwewiwomukobaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc1e0eea3c35a3b7772c9bdcfd78ccf6/kivefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/4840173305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2442dcea2d5076e0af2d7008d0d79c0c/dejawapunaziwavepijijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dae3e4528a5---gelafonineliramoviliputuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c8dcd7b95100412352e4e05a6d8fb2/73779719717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/58664129827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/fexebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3paqfoo293n2umeag7vjmcbv70/jikimuxobanimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=watch+h2o+online+freePDF 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_off0000e664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE664 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7B 10376 bytes
SHA-256: d3138f0ce4d01780905a1442f0cb2b1c679d98545ed9bfa6d9df70052e7b992a
font_02_sfnt_off000115ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EE 17844 bytes
SHA-256: a2c420458324f46377f91c8731d6b725c4073f06c16e17bd23c09e0767d48645