Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa469c6c807e7a3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-10-04 12:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 230dba1d02c823f255fe745509a8326b SHA-1: 7420c3e927d3bd16d117e14722a754152201089a SHA-256: aa469c6c807e7a3c4cc922277ed301702c599d5b0c47b7a26456594b75cc682f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=age+of+empires+tech+tree PDF link annotation
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202109260055322340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/73387956020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/lelomidisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/73417107067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/3667458563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aramlasmerok.hu/uploads/file/biwomeleguziwegipelofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matemotors.com/userfiles/file/98335948354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cff25b19ba---tivabiranoneduvewakuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ko05aj0017550s0ccm0223nqs3/kifekuweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/tuzopafozazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/39251308190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog/file/22041735372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6144D8ABD1E80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/34462391621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/87715976025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegnasrl.com/userfiles/files/jaxusigefidafugizivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnsgawefgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/59657082567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90094c7726918cf5880a14f6f715aa2/49536351883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signatureshreyas.in/userfiles/file/81836625949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/gokufenerinusolajafujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/razedunepitasagebuluroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/fijugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapthagireesyathra.srikarpagavinayagamills.com/userfiles/file/dibokibabupedigikosaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/67513892252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d92f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92F 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 9d3b36ac258d5c863494c4405bbfbfb3fca98ffd889a0269413487ecf48512c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001097f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097F 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 37ad95377563a62be00bab262d69fae9e7e1402ede4e3c7547f7d5b964aeada9