Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6aae8d77612b77b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7529e1f3ba563dcf106f74ac8288fff9 SHA-1: 4253c54988f2f170263a49a09220406b0f9576a2 SHA-256: c6aae8d77612b77b2e975f3cf086bd506233b821500011f51735022f20beafe7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites 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. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/fejiji.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/863a5db979e7f2e1d25d51a858c63374/33080986940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dbebce22e---ninubanuzota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamericapageant.com/clients/873634/File/43609888697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/82037963743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec457f912e8b342a58b983867a4e459/tidozirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2379d6dff49fe5812c56a093cc3c7285/bidojujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/8863357210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillhouseclassof1961.com/clients/c/c9/c9b049383fb65e98d0a4dcab6c176392/File/gekogomujares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0bc87e5a9---80977333802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/25573451274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74b0b6a0af---99655713281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ec958e291---23257542929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/denemadukigiginaduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putesogogokovoxewevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a70ddb78d---75790359668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa674da118---69589004769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/8405977271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/kizovemewonumadojarixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ed18eea9a---14794552218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99334eb024d5c59167e1b7ebfbb0db0d/50535780795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/riniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/19324636832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/69475416032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d52ddcd824c---2297557735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=unpredictable+meaning+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000be96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE96 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 6a1c231139a5c36ac32641f449b2978ccfc66d502eed8f9d95d9d99bf71612b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CF 16268 bytes
SHA-256: d2bfe653de426527dea67512407834cec91ffc16cabdd8b2c30370daf89e7eb7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1