Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01aa8d1aa62d2a39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 08:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5b0857e0ed115b76abd7f8cd3ada40c6 SHA-1: 24284adee85a84ad35949aad566d24fa98486aa8 SHA-256: 01aa8d1aa62d2a3961a1ee2ec2e78723cf3fa8dc175f66ec3f9b710e3346108f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDFs on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest a distribution mechanism for further malicious content, likely through spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/13210791230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/16297648546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081461e0d109---magejudozenubiferaregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbd09281d5---61729846652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0d4014289338c2a4798993fb07b582/75295817956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd88a047a5a---norawusura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/legogolotipomasamawidifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/7298208754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609494ebb9706---7440833323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d927d4452c3---patiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2dc181faa---33554460280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/mekasepafotori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br3s25v8ktklogdjkumnfmt969/44667298842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33b3e41e37---sunuwigivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8708e1f88---vupabojonarebemajamaweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0694388a6---kulegokunixejegalumosokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2680b6cc62c64fc38c3bcc2864acf23c/movoduberatomiride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/gowanezasisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brc0e1nhfiidol98v32l182hul/41368883759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/34378461521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f31abbd73e83247f13aa598076e6fbb/63603815718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0807b0ef4---23478308466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/io58p177p2gl6ds58e7ob500km/resasekuwazebimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b0f1e56a4---woxagojabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5v03uut5mac1b48mtq1dgdktmq/xegitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=draw+a+cumulative+frequency+curve+for+the+following+frequency+distributionPDF 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_off0000e1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DB 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 02bad8ae813f3fdcb5d83571cb0e197e216efb635f0aa9884d745773a0650598
font_02_sfnt_off00012607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12607 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 176a145657ac8a20ef2283697acf75439672acb53c8619e79883049fe25fc667