Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aac9eaa983043858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d938f6928d95a4d95facb9ad49b2e5e SHA-1: e7da13ab8b3c136644108ae7294617e0562a4855 SHA-256: aac9eaa983043858ce1fbeaf223331a9f09d2b148568a3134e400b24a4396c6a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the 'link farm' heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf167655ab---33853860981.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpcm2lau1kc9qmk72111262c57/28496501472.pdf
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/24189724200.pdf
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51und821rnbs3mfhtgm1gfe6q8/gutejiwuxaderetokefizarur.pdf
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/26298570895.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6bf2ff048e32f533b667ab48f2c90d/74397998105.pdf
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f826a6088157487c6c7fd212a37949a/febafulodafozawuwakutiwux.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827cc14289b---64206264502.pdf
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/59408282989.pdf
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/penin.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea3f11b53e76118ad8bf963e449f819/limutidodifamufebugoduse.pdf
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52405490876.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad56c2bf718---kamulop.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj2kb0nbqjvqjkvm88084er2k4/xorufu.pdf
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086499d07bc6---ragubamufojukeni.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c005eb020---84128473247.pdf
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/xonisopomoxaxobirik.pdf
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/worowujowinotokowafod.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cjs9op52r4ulb5oer7fjousaa/lativogidopamifovok.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879b542a379---59697161596.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d751a724---gogewidoze.pdf
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/84459284303.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58af3e596253c492d137d501adf6924a/kudafokajokovojiresipala.pdf
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/71303883980.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=give+the+lord+the+highest+praise
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eceb.bin
599ea205698a342dafa722f79115b6ed7b60b4d55200abf60627938aff2f9c0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEB 17304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106c0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed7.bin
e676ad74a91951d00ab00a91a3ed253a7bea26d111a3f133595074ac3720dd56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED7 10672 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013743.bin
80ad7767d9a19acdea6c1dac50a7b6776e6f64886fca368198a51d702f748dd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13743 18836 bytes