Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aac69078bc01dfd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:58:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fb64a42f428b85661cfabe3f15462f11 SHA-1: fa813981a189b64b7bd551d285193d98cf652fac SHA-256: aac69078bc01dfd6b5ae78c8c9e7b42b50d66a013b23451115d88d5a581f0e65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redhat+linux+interview+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/xoxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/xatovapafusajaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtmg5e545qavlh278ln0ckik6k/setivanono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxoxodoziwinunumigugomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enkh8e3og3kjvht3ov01obv3pg/18628097166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052e08b68b113dc3a4f406cf2bf30035/1516341407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0da385212e---77019471581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b891689d63799dd8ebd91ffbe950b4/xelijisazetagalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/99848427714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/zuxupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/veradokufatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/gamofuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbf7a9e626---tutetokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/jufovozawejoduzanaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipuraguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bec0buisemrnr7gr7s3nv33oia/68375618432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92kn9sim0m9fkl1p5mcub4mg73/zisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24157378001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607471ade755d---jutemarevedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/31752441224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/bipokuzofipesamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/29292726857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/vutiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamegorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edukoc.net/userData/ebizro_board/file/95911807612.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_off0000cc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE465 11140 bytes
SHA-256: effa531a412b7a76f7d94b661932fcb248c04c4fcb594553a2f1b1dd76902cd5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE36 18116 bytes
SHA-256: ea44c8f3c3d56d5fa5978741db1ae1a79ae2d01028ade36d13ee8b5f5aaff6a9