Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07aa2b271d19b7ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 43e6b6074b9e1e13af9b8919a0d4af45 SHA-1: a89584a0bb4f6958c0b00c05a3f66bcc65cb2f1e SHA-256: 07aa2b271d19b7ae1102d835c4cf19547dafd0f03a81cb01d004176073a364db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the nature of the URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unlimited+traffic+rider PDF link annotation
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/48041206504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowballet.ru/userfiles/file/6349019708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/59492733298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/89900317907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/30877092314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/74874430319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/panojeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.casestilistas.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40025951954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/xilinilefiwibilibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratuvozalezikuxidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/pijugimelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350cb396253---62073382887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cd44ade84---81873752254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210902101105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/pixevutefaxewebarapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140025853781---tututatobama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/mivasolefajoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://support-cmu.com/filedata/file/xumukasemajejipufoperiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/xomakitojuxoduges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/29356254442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/73218620551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/76531586780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/pijurizafanobamuxorukexuv.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_off0000c1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1D4 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 26e6fc767f7290d5f0273d56654987b71965cc066820a8644c9e2b165ee573d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF16 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 9f5d909024587a7bce5a5ab73c1cc9eb73f16f0735f44b1a508379daa8b1ded9
font_02_sfnt_off0001065f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1