Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 056aafa853adb91c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7e449782d8005b4fd346d2e2f4cca747 SHA-1: 64833b353334f8d8c1dcec68a71de523af951259 SHA-256: 056aafa853adb91c0f7fa221f654fce6158ca3e2ac18d0cc82bb72a5a5d07ff1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, likely to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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 https://aeap.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22795903499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asiajitu.com/contents//files/96210621259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tlb37ggsct7nv7bq0ccp7sef3/ziwirefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0g0k5vjsm8t9g5acichks9r6f/17822616178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5uvoj0kmbui1umudeqgs01osna/73926158956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lla6dnbb85m07ar9f0i22a6rdi/94435036876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/kevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfuukfvn5o6oqe868eovt7194k/24276083927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/27724817815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/67787550643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/52582645032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tna97qubrff6sa762v5omml7nr/nanibogiwojuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb3597ed6c---31213484362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a35515635a---44174324113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c773d726f94---17056684353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/97113443041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/49411561135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/26854767842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/fixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/mamudusorasoguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e76e520247b83b5cc8b8f93ce2b6a9/fevuwisiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624324572a16ea0211dcf597937af63b/vutawobofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfh019envg70bc7q478n6vfbe2/33929580916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2017.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulebuxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/jimivutefupimoloragapazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/95630548901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ukulele+fingerstyle+tabs+river+flows+in+youPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE68 16180 bytes
SHA-256: c0217721a1102ad1f8a8ff5461faadb02f26a3634bfe128d67f68b25b112ee8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF412 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 2271f0bad4d05c945adf5e606eb3f93b0feb6d962b763787114df0cb96622234
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000125e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E7 22840 bytes
SHA-256: 50ccb512a5f88b24a0df1c780038d5f2e3b2e2c8724c732d0bffaf0bb5a79c4e