Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06aa99d1a6d61559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 057368ce1aad593505c4a36f55a912b5 SHA-1: cdf9b8978ce9322941cc9583ed1038b2321f10b3 SHA-256: 06aa99d1a6d6155950b9194390146dfa3d82961da639d69e36f8d9774a48eb44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs suggest a link farm attack pattern designed to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210802_154556.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/75508482078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/85728084813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade8fec4955---81074637194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogefowexanavanugukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/jikefafapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristorantebiscione.com/userfiles/files/85880635321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f67dbece72---jisuwejujilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kihi2jnplpjhtr10jgu5sq7gi3/71846505073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/tofudovepoxepejomixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/pidodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b6d53007eafaf4c94edc839c482961/57268717983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076535ed34d0---zokowefaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/pevameriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daynexweb.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tijipafifugixisebijexunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/81167922761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/51434590349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/895825aeeba312cd53868397037895e7/vamuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/xududetires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usa-ex.com/nuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/rowekilutoxadesizafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/23979222392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/vajizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56e0e8c11e---76551198204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+journalist+and+the+murderer+free+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://unimedbelem.com.br/painel_template/assets/global/plugins/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/zazovofubopaxuludob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFB 10956 bytes
SHA-256: e81949f52f01b5d2fed4b9c4902d470c2fe2d5930eac0864e3453dea750c9485
font_01_sfnt_off0000f421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF421 17340 bytes
SHA-256: eed3738218b02caaf3c764f5991ced27f14d26b8d08969fd79e14f0d75b1d199
font_02_sfnt_off000120d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1