Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8ac324fc5e58d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:44:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 842d5eb772d48f23cdce5c492d524eae SHA-1: f0d20db27a18ead7df311e12dcfa0be7182d75e1 SHA-256: aa8ac324fc5e58d317dda03abd4c1c29de4aed3601e4c63738d6021ecd2daf75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to external malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further infection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=presentarsi+in+italiano+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52980ef7d79a96de0ef09f181f9f369c/64876445490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3caa6340544e4b966e994b81732552b7/88060739960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/4538475023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531670006737f26c0c706291b6582627/sijoverudiwiwesadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612195145d875---wokugelalijalaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/zuliduledevevifetinupabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/lotedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaa1a0c4aa---11961477447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47cd1e4248---63022143704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18cec6c84779bca462307347031cd1e6/riwuvesifokonulifodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/xerebajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/14097731356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1ad7cf9f5cf4048cd0e45f94811468/47023581864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607667a7072b6---vefeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608848487a5e6---nozemuvezutifozudotaviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2654dede73f8eaa81d5c2a613720215/7470943239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c2cd7eb8beae879905b4bdddfa416d/66882878876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078daeeabb89---6531677648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161254fc12f9ad---walomuvobofiludamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lerototovibovaledoruposot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/59664034100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/46522956824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcfmupamebt6fjmmh8vt6pge56/wamaxitoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/17950977114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dcff988ae4---sosusutowolaj.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_off0000e640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE52 19080 bytes
SHA-256: 1f3555883e2628066f44e8d315a4b3c0dbee88bb918552b986faf7e89542396e
font_02_sfnt_off00013014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13014 10492 bytes
SHA-256: e2c710de01848fc334cd521e6896a935da47303cdb95db8102501d988d615823