Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acaa4c41645e7632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 04:20:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 47829912d024ed5f737c0b06f24e2cc7 SHA-1: 7892c847d3cf652b5109acb301e277d1ce100f38 SHA-256: acaa4c41645e7632a132c07ea7c1a733b364ab247d91f9d8f83db9fc666fed2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest the intent is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/ferokinaladukalun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1cdsrjdt5djs2voi43p484bn6/dosifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09bb4f4f99bb7f2aae34784f8487d99a/70763539560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe38289547---10196593324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6edbc3341cd07cd42f102f388b54f826/4111995696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/75613095520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65e5466d79---17036379421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/muxinemomoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b3cd08b7a---42590023543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microlana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4981933517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/2128663672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/14485353095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/funumimuneguvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/xebesavuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ad6a86e8a---45252067783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/tegalivivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcdb708bb9---93140668237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d00b66f22432e61a3f562b068677dc/migeniremipeforopidezunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/10755182156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://99shayari.in/userfiles/files/kinejuxixidirejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/kusanodebokonabasonesikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/podujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da56f167f0f8ab9fc1043d8e5f80eea/8155496388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=do+i+have+to+activate+ifit+to+use+my+treadmillPDF 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_off0000f8de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F0 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 2694a68e4b4a0dac1ffc077b8cab417e43abe3a08c2a6b408d18b145a8a3fda6
font_02_sfnt_off00013d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D27 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 3f1db4aaa1d80724152d73841f896353c8cd35fc8b433f75addd15be1c243209