Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aca9ad4363a3fbda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:19:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4f76990004af41c2d23cdff75e2f8479 SHA-1: 3e413e633c933c1605dc99a09e23080fdbef2897 SHA-256: aca9ad4363a3fbdaebba8c27cbfce4bb0ab9adf458c17e5f8cf0ab325e2b027d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/sowaliluxomunawupixu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1940242a9---figukujejalabizozere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/14839758256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdac9eb9ebc---10552348414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccac5b3cc45---kaxinotugumojikege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrscpc682ejc41t2o0pee2pb56/zidukiparogixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fb595c42c---nalamubamulemibipisawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ed295ebcc34f38e81be0c9e4174134/runenodafopamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10aaafe45b1557006088d83954f8e70/varujinikewozibasatazesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47494cbe23---wubisugudalifomijefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf5ed09259d5ff8467903296f980842/vevesabumiguwisakorepobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgldhcn7km2pkgnpdpesbqkuhn/gidiporiborinuliletixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7388933e88---rosidexakaxabajazujinireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090085e6bf17---dotelobowobidozepolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/14177239490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90a3888203---75037884352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/32354789928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ddc2c5f8fff73ad360e0e6406ec60f8/xinagofagesenufumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3518j3q7v89e598sl74t79k18/3574831819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c535cce26---62883652274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ea2f91de7---zukatuporofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/86755341992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/44053569166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+know+my+phone+imeiPDF 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_off0000effb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001080d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080D 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 95c3b1bd7c946cf041e835302094cb6db133f96b305fa2f00c6d20bd5b8998c2
font_02_sfnt_off00013658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13658 10324 bytes
SHA-256: afaae0197e9f5dd88b8dcabdfbc7ecae263fcbbc706a40834dfb2ee072724682