Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa84ea41746204e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 07:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a0cf48ae7def564309846d00d38f4008 SHA-1: 91fac9e798a629cc896a5aaaeab3ccd2a85c254d SHA-256: aa84ea41746204e2998e67f126e4a305caaf1ca859b17871df921845d0a6e210
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of these links aligns with the T1204.002 (Malicious Link) technique, and the document itself likely serves as a spearphishing attachment (T1566.001).

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a726c2e9ebec64c99012e7479fd3976e/14777224305.pdf
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9d326f15ab0bd6da776cd14f257e775/34544776066.pdf
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a5b7243569cc84406ee8818bc1d74e/zanividem.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/285509c45b99b6fba087615c97707d93/vowadozekodiwegitonusasif.pdf
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a861f60a7f8127882bf636d37168cba0/80715281664.pdf
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/51827008563.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cdece1196bc5e4eb4899665209c90ed/wuzerem.pdf
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/rifovelirobiguzele.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m27vaub9nbc9hkd98k116eqh27/jikudadafob.pdf
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a5d0e7bc8e4b1587805c0fbb7ae5c9f/93855202556.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a6c39dd6d---kipusa.pdf
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99654949862.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9geu8g06gojpauptfdrb80b1/94970404946.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607077f45c29d---zupezoxezisel.pdf
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a02bk016913aik5l4edo4cos57/xurudibugaza.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb220307efcf6b7a742e90c77949af43/33542398122.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23fccafe6a1cc8a04cad60e20570e2bc/bikonin.pdf
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/lovuwizulalidomepabogeka.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k87hqleoi6p6b6049ju3ge4bs/41548412054.pdf
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/26390837751.pdf
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/61637450251.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6sj36ut7pcfip7ilqjbi9ibgl/semedepa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+two+sacraments+of+healing
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011cc6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000134dd.bin
cd7b54aad4b392a4b7e4372629dc149907eb099c22b6d569c46200f2c59bb486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134DD 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014dc6.bin
0adcaab58cb292ebf802686894e46a5d3fe462a345fe7b51401b0c29b2bcbb2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DC6 17376 bytes