Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa9966f30a875da0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:44:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5bef803c3bca5b2205815e1182aa98fa SHA-1: bb0d158e47c5f1cd8445b846d20fe55e40750087 SHA-256: aa9966f30a875da08fda25ac76c63dfcbc2ab079085996c3e7f6cc436994d76a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or redirection mechanism to host malicious content. The presence of PDF link farm heuristics and the detection of external URIs strongly support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98260236cd---19282367568.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b23ba0d1d---22934076677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607904a3c3e9d---17676905886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff29b0d761ab4e2ac217cf2860763c4/6093785993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetypath.net/cms_images/64754864661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/86343970978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbi98a11f09o1gtvnr1nujpof2/tadalivomisakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fe7df771---4311759216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/162311350194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/1947179008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galgalesh.com/userfiles/file/vogozumesurojaxavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/jexowakanidejujezokixulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/89993324661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608326a7c60c5---bawomomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61b8b49a9b---54122409216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f668d6f0f40cf1bd1e6935abc3d3eaec/96010515841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c265171022---difemanepud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d111c250---23653148825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/64945045283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a8b82921b---89563013896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gknm8l0up091c7hj7dmd9mha88/kabigaxenedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbe850136b---vojaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/tuzenidalikudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0dbf02a4dbacaadb73b71d4581861d1/fivavogotuvoroxesadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafaa62effc8d89c90c2f1f46fb7080a/mogobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d1301b1d71c1f3533ddc3fc4f9a3f85/11581689252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hydroelectric+energy+comes+fromPDF 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_off0000f437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C49 16980 bytes
SHA-256: e1d365cdd381621456ec498be4277a00f2badaa5b027e0fc9fe2cc116f6a1e53
font_02_sfnt_off000138a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138A8 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 659b52b7e5e1752925a1b1c8c249cb2c5540d21c75f0d1fe67bdcb664c5d904e