Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aec687f1683bbd25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cc1471b93743f00262096e95ea238874 SHA-1: 8b198a9decfdbb6f52697adb212cd8cde781c517 SHA-256: aec687f1683bbd259efc36b3100b280bdd0b38e4247e79f674b765e6edd0567f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded links are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0oqmpb8sk4qo4go8jetuvrk99/nepimimipijowajuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents//files/55411689738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6850868437227b34f6dd839a6ea4f53/jufavofepuxawoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6aa1d8d818---63305369335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ff60366b7---26647200057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/mamekagakidogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/luroxajatotusejukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinejasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb62deba79---muzilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/lusaviratetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f7677ed33---21720530637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efc98a8beb---bibefesanekagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/52754362077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e5fa3b990---75238948574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/43249274777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df02a4a0ec---87109356085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c1dbb690372773dc0d7ebc0bdab0fa/99300962604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba5c09d7da1b184054886379703f5ae/govawegogafasatedede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progin.swiss/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73540511350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seitonsolutions.com/ci/files/xenururowizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb4070b318c9c4ae047095d267241ba3/21426224220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/jewibatitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/vimimipusenodadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr6jut4soke6de1q77ehjgncvs/wogakosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+worldPDF 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_off0000f13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13A 17204 bytes
SHA-256: e9218f210401f8f72a7d563bf9efec3253d3734048f618cfb4716c3006f02d4a
font_01_sfnt_off00011dfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFE 10100 bytes
SHA-256: b720ccb104cac74a1316fb8acc15ccea296ed626844331acf6375c7d283e7e84
font_02_sfnt_off000134b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1