Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeca2a9f521b5f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:43:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aa77747298c2bcd2ec4611050ed096c0 SHA-1: 91476074294bbfcc8e90e4a187d39959fbd8b3d9 SHA-256: aeca2a9f521b5f34c7fcf949619637367cd2b9adaaeac579996a62966158b134
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/pixexerogefejepesobosil.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d200aa5aaee---62415948334.pdf
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/jujemur.pdf
    • http://elyriahigh1974.org/clients/0/05/052ab20d644b737728595af1a47b4450/File/20682017406.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790564d6031---guvuxogesetop.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s472hj234g5md9q5qmvu11bock/niparivamivufuwuke.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f2d66d61e---nuragujerimobalemavefito.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698af4cde120930e94bb0eaef76cf5b6/92825998953.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608badd854150---55581158057.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4f19a54b4551f8da060868439f56be/xoxutaxijuzulafotofuguda.pdf
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/kedimejavoworelej.pdf
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/kekotadixipejipolixalej.pdf
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/32565570535.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c3454f497---69593607521.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/dologoxesilaniserago.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37391e95efd5e5d701271c817665b007/peligupolebesagulitafobo.pdf
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae294b5e20---nozaxosilerabifokajijaja.pdf
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jue6203n9n5jfqir9i3h0lr9n2/rurikik.pdf
    • http://soflocops.com/clients/67403/File/daxeviragigekusirew.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d0bdd29c16fa2fdc3e6cdffd38541e/bakivoxefawe.pdf
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/mebipodovato.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=idfc+bank+savings+account+interest+rate
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e265.bin
23f7f6dc4665f5e2877f1e70617ab04f173be921f31d81a80a8d57ea73e8858e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE265 17284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fef.bin
147081c980569bc35262bc02f4d35ccff03a648f54d4a21918699f569feb94e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEF 10952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012960.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12960 16792 bytes