Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa470f30dcba1fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-05-09 10:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5a88e06953cdcad711459ef697b728ab SHA-1: b389f6757b2eecf3df7911ebccbac8da5975093d SHA-256: aa470f30dcba1fa6142e86f58059ac7fdaa3c6a0cbf3db084ca545d0650afed2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious payloads. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acessibilidade+em+assentamentos+informais PDF link annotation
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d109b9c1---38666042124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607142f875d21---23331803285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d85ae97201---zozibenerileraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736f0f27192---46159822953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071efdf30b64---3941184961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b1a35d911---dokureso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cb93f3cd2---93782486706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul2afuu1mi3m4tpbsvjqoaca9t/69194607529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/302358408126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079662713830---tisajuxutupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/xozivivesefelebeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpveg21anl62p3fisiq0i182qq/wofegakegatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81758fd1d8f01f2b7cc7477ba0417202/56985657092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/50501357616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/61954371715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094563d8d351---minerokenidudidowuraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD672 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 0d27d04eae144cdd606d8a6f1fdb7ae0737937cde47a2d31dc3e2e42a4975489
font_01_sfnt_off0000e85c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85C 12160 bytes
SHA-256: 7d14e4ec4af4abd8c39e763f7007a8daa99675f008b7617f040d748fa0830221